Welcome to Connecting Dots where interdisciplinary learning helps leaders innovate for the digital era. I’m Brett Macfarlane and this newsletter is a testbed for my INSEAD research into the behavioural and psychodynamic factors behind today’s innovation crisis and the coming revival.
BRAY, ENGLAND I’m effusive as I greet the new year by cycling through the foggy English villages of the Chilterns outside London. It’s a moment I feel grateful for you reading and joining the Connecting Dot journey. Through this newsletter, I’ve better connected with old acquaintances while making new ones. All of whom are curious about how to better unlock the mysteries and paradoxes of change and innovation in organisations and society at large. Thank you.
Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed a holiday breather, inhaled some cheer and exhaled the parts of you that can stay behind in 2019 to make way for what’s ahead in 2020.
We appreciate that of the thousands of readers to Connecting Dots over the year, many only joined us recently. Below is a recap of the year grouped by how you might be feeling as you head back to work and start realising the opportunities ahead.
May you thrive in 2020,
- Brett
Feeling Courageous:
07 / Unrealised Potential
08 / Quantum Leadership
Feeling Curious:
01/ Systems at Play
06 / Innovation’s Process Paralysis
Feeling Worried:
02 / Oh Man the Future
03 / The Tyranny of Collaboration
05 / Fair Process and an Identity Crisis
PS Please forward this newsletter to someone you feel would be interested. I’d love them to subscribe and we can grow the Connecting Dots Community to learn from each other.