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"To truly embed innovation and agility, we have to be able to collaborate, work across boundaries within and between organizations, to bring together disparate experiences and perspectives, and to properly empower people to come up with ideas and make change happen. In other words, we have to build different corporate cultures and ways of working". Peter Cheese, CEO Chartered institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) These elements are the "softer" side of agility. But they are also the most critical enablers of change and adaptation, and they are harder to understand and to put into effect, which is why they are so often underestimated or misunderstood.

Seth Godin's perspective on the importance of interpersonal skills for leaders. The catalogue of skills is particularly useful.

Reframing - the key to buy-in?  Rory Sutherland talks eloquently and convincingly about how you position a situation determines how it is received. Essential stuff if you are trying to convince senior people of the worth of your endeavours. Sutherland is one of the leading thinkers in advertising today, so knows what he is talking about.

Why Gamification works for some organizations and not others.

You've probably encountered the usual issues of group decision making… People who dominate the conversation, quiet people whose ideas never get heard and all those post-it notes you have to write up. GroupMap solves this by capturing individual thinking first, then reveal the group perspective, all in real-time. Now that's true collaborative decision making.

"'Reassessing the Aha! Moment' or ' epiphany is balderdash' - another perspective on informality and innovation from the International Herald Tribune"

" A useful blog for perspectives on developments in innovative organisations."

SharePoint is unquestionably a success from a licensing perspective, but dig behind the firewall and the picture looks more chequered. For example in a uSamp survey last year, 80 percent of organizations using SharePoint said employees continue to share documents as email attachments. Recently, the UK Met Office abandoned a twoyear SharePoint implementation project in favor of the cloud-based Huddle service. Even where SharePoint is used, people aren't truly collaborating with it. Team sites are often really document graveyards where content is stored once collaboration has stopped.