Busting the following myths:MYTH 1: You need to feel inspired in order to be creative.MYTH 2: Success breeds success.MYTH 3: Consuming a large quantity of information makes us well-informed.MYTH 4: A leader sits at the top of the pyramid.MYTH 5: Success is an external measure of career, status, or wealth.
Busting the following myths:MYTH 1: People do not change. Fundamentally, we are who we are.MYTH 2: Transformative experiences happen to us—from external sources and controls.MYTH 3: Experience design leaders always intend positive experiences.MYTH 4: Experience design leaders control experiences.MYTH 5: Experience design leadership is a simple checklist of best-practices.
Busting the following myths- MYTH 1: Educated employees come equipped with conflict resolution skills.MYTH 2: Time heals disconnected employee relationships.MYTH 3: It is the role of managers to resolve team conflict.MYTH 4: Digital communication is an effective way to discuss issues.MYTH 5: Relationships are secondary to profit and production.
Busting the following myths- MYTH 1: Data and metrics are the only things investors care about. MYTH 2: Storytelling and creativity have no place in the business world. MYTH 3: Investors are only interested in what you are doing ‘right now’, not how you got there.MYTH 4: If you have a good product, nothing else matters.MYTH 5: Raising capital is the end goal of every start-up.
Busting the following myths-MYTH 1: Coaching is for low performers.MYTH 2: Culture is free: Optimise the system and the culture will follow.MYTH 3: The West knows best.MYTH 4: The purpose of employee engagement is happiness.MYTH 5: Values and behavioral standards should be expressed positively.
"Busting the following myths-MYTH 1: Work-life balance is key.MYTH 2: Sustainable businesses cannot exist at scale.MYTH 3: The customer is always right.MYTH 4: Strategic pricing is complex.MYTH 5: Failure is always bad."
MYTH 1: Only logic matters.MYTH 2: Just present the one right way.MYTH 3: When persuading with numbers, more colours gives more credibility.MYTH 4: You don’t want the other person to say “No”.
"Busting the following myths-MYTH 1: Stay lean and outsource what you can.MYTH 2: Better keep the best for a short time than the mediocre forever.MYTH 3: Appeal to permanent customer focus.MYTH 4: Avoid being dependent on narrow markets and few customers.MYTH 5: Beware of the difficult customers.
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MYTH 1: It is all about moonshots and disruption nowadays.MYTH 2: Inventors drive the business forward.MYTH 3: It takes a special ‘innovation team’ to succeed.MYTH 4: To be successful, your key investments should be in technology and new products.MYTH 5: Innovation either happens or it doesn’t. It can’t be orchestrated.
MYTH 1: Performance measurement is easy to understand.MYTH 2: Performance measurement is easy to develop and implement.MYTH 3: The best practices of governance, business planning, and performance measurement are well understood and practised in many organisations.MYTH 4: A supportive organisation climate is not essential for a productive organisation.MYTH 5: Major crown projects in the public sector can never succeed.
Busting the following myths-MYTH 1: Innovation occurs in a dramatic thunderclap of insight. MYTH 2: Innovation occurs organically; it does not adhere to a process that can be taught or followed. MYTH 3: Innovation is the bastion of Silicon Valley gurus working in R&D labs. Myth 4: Speed is of the essence! The most successful innovators create solutions and get them into the market quickly. Myth 5: Customer research can cloud the issue: follow your dreams—go with your gut!
Debunking the following myths:MYTH 1: Time is your most valuable resource.MYTH 2: Experience is everything.MYTH 3: What got me here, will get me there.MYTH 4: Good managers are naturally good leaders, and good leaders are naturally good managers.MYTH 5: I know my weaknesses.