Paul Taylor

Sticking a big fat zero on the problem doesn’t solve it. It can inspire new thinking and galvanise people to a cause. #ideas #innovation

Don’t buy into the concept of organisations having a culture of innovation but do believe that you can have a culture conducive to innovation.

By calling problems all the same we risk dealing with them all the same. Or worse, doing nothing because when everything is a crisis nothing really is.

Enlightened organizations know that people focused services build on existing strengths and promote responsibility instead.

As humans we have become more and more impatient, demanding immediacy and instant gratification through increasingly digital and frictionless experiences.

Follow all these AND got some data about the cost of the problem you should have enough evidence to get backing behind your idea.

Trust in national politics appears to be tanking across the board – both blurring and eroding traditional allegiances to the left or right.

The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated digital inequality and the gaps that still exist in digital access and capability.

The danger is that with a focus on all-out collaboration you miss out on the creativity of introverts. #business #collaboration

The cost of lockdowns, poor energy policy and new sustainability initiatives are conspiring to hit the poorest first and worst.

Is busyness an indicator of having too much work to do, or a sign of a lack of empowerment? #business #busy #bureaucracy

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but happen much faster than you expect. #business #success #time

When companies want to change they almost always add something to the mix. A new team, a new senior leader, a new process, a new system.

It’s time to stop being slave to speed, to seeing technology and apps and digital transformations as saviours of our time. #time #work

If all we did was view how people behave slightly less cynically, maybe we’d create a much more relaxed, healthy and happier world.

Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately creating consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and therefore need to be frequently replaced

For almost all companies hybrid work is an experiment, and most experiments fail. The best experiments are small and build upon previous evidence.

A problem focused culture is far more likely to generate great ideas as great ideas address a human want or necessity. #innovation #ideas

Who is really winning from transformation? It’s not necessarily going to be you or your customers. #transformartion #business

We are in control of how we contribute to the the distraction and time wasting that happens every day in the modern world of work.

In markets without much competition, organisations can deliver bad service not because of poor design and management but because they can.

We have an opportunity to be more different, more memorable and make more change than we ever have. #innovation #ideas #people

Enlightened employers will let their employees experiment with ways of working that look after people, the planet and productivity.

Reversing stigma means having uncomfortable conversations that risk offending all parties. Are we up for it? #poor #world 

In reality, both mostly good and mostly bad organisations make mistakes, but the mostly good ones are better at learning from them.

Not all organisations with creative spaces are engaged in innovation theatre, but all organisations engaged in innovation theatre have creative spaces.

We’re obsessed with big change but we’re underestimating the power of the small changes that lie more easily within our reach?

Einstein believed the quality of the solution you generate is in direct proportion to your ability to identify the problem you hope to solve.

This isn’t about requiring people back in the office, but letting them influence where they can do their best work and knowing where it happens.

The best way to emerge from a state of fear is by being social, looking after friends and neighbours and being part of a community. #fear

No-one can predict the future but history shows us that it often turns out very different than we imagine. #future #predictions

The companies who thrive will be the ones who are change seekers and change makers, not controllers, managers or inhibitors. #innovation

Our Post Covid world of work has to integrate some very different personas into the workplace. #workplace #employees #workfromhome

So don’t criticise ideas. Just learn to ask better questions. #innovation #business #ideas #success #finserv

If we are to shift our innovation efforts across the whole enterprise, we need more management experiments. #wrokforce

A shorter work week might force us all to cut meetings, limit email and interruptions, and operate at a much more deliberate, productive and happier level.

Seeking out dissent and disagreement and having our ideas and thoughts challenged would lead to a happier and more productive world.

Society only thrives when everyone understands one another. And now more than ever we need to focus on what unites us, not on what divides us.

It’s about unlearning the habits and beliefs that hold us back, and replacing them with habits and beliefs that help us to prepare for the future.

Twelve months into the great remote work experiment, where do we stand? #zoom #workforce #workfromhome #fatigue

The way to solve our greatest and most persistent problems isn’t glamorous at all – it’s actually quite mundane. #innovation

It could be that a lot of our problems are sitting there waiting to be solved by our colleagues and communities. #problems

How come you’ve likely got the same problems in your organisation that you’ve always had? #business #problems #solutions

The jury is still out on whether the pandemic has truly ushered in a new era of remote work, or perhaps the shift is merely illusory.

Collaboration, user research, digital tech as an accelerant of learning. This should be used as Innovation 101 for all our organisations going forward.

When trust is local, every interaction we have with our family, our colleagues or our community is a potential trust builder or killer.

So what can we do to get people to stop bending the rules? #rules #secrets #people #compliance #success 

What is innovation to us, and what am I hoping to get out of innovation? #leadership #innovation #performance #success

Design thinking is all about understanding how people actually behave rather than how they say they do. #innovation #ideas

Are we experiencing the unintended consequences of what was a sudden shift to working remotely? #wrokfromhome #burnout