Strategy12 min read
Why Change Management Efforts Fail So Consistently
, the prominent psychologist Solomon Asch undertook a pathbreaking series of conformity studies.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
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Greg Satell
Greg Satell is an author of the new book, CASCADES: HOW TO CREATE A MOVEMENT THAT DRIVES TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE, whose work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, Forbes, Inc and Fast Company. His earlier book, MAPPING INNOVATION, was selected as one of the best business titles of 2017.
An accomplished entrepreneur, executive and one of the foremost experts on innovation today, Greg speaks to audiences around the world and works with leading organizations to better compete in today’s disruptive marketplace.
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Strategy5 min read
Who Should You Hire to Up Your Innovation Game?
"The fox," Berlin wrote, "knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Collins then devotes an entire chapter to explaining why hedgehogs perform better than foxes.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Strategy5 min read
When Should You Collaborate and When Should You Compete?
The philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that technological advancement is a process of revealing and building. Scientists reveal new phenomena through exploration and experiment and then later engineers figure out how to channel these phenomena to some specific use
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Culture5 min read
We Need to Stop Glorifying Failure. Here's What to Do Instead
The same is true of about three quarters of corporate transformations, which is probably why the average lifespan on the S&P 500 continues to shrink.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
This Small Startup Is Building The Tools That May Power The Quantum Era
In 2012, Shaun Wilson and Michael Brett were designing aerospace simulation software.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
These 3 Technology Inflection Points Will Change Our Future Beyond Recognition
The one sticking point continues to be battery technology, which is still far too expensive.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Intrapreneurship6 min read
The Little-Known Event that Made Einstein a Legendary Icon
The civil rights movement will always be associated with Martin Luther King Jr
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Culture5 min read
The Eureka Moment Myth
Fleming's story is one that is told and retold because it reinforces so much about what we love about innovation.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Intrapreneurship5 min read
The Dotcom Bust Nearly Killed This Silicon Valley Publisher, but Instead It Reinvented Its Business Model and Now It's Thriving
The success of the conference business would lead to an even greater shift that would not only lead to greater profits, but would redefine how it saw its role as a publisher.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Culture5 min read
Sorry Thomas Edison, but It's Ecosystems, Not Inventions that Truly Change the World
In 1882, just three years after he had almost literally shocked the world with his electric light bulb, Thomas Edison opened his Pearl Street Station, the first commercial electrical distribution plant in the United States.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Leadership5 min read
It's Not Enough to Drive Change. You Also Have to Survive Victory
Blockbuster was winning the majority of new subscribers, outstripping Netflix for the first time.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Culture5 min read
Is Artificial Intelligence the New Productivity Paradox?
The Greatest Value Comes from New Business Models--Not Cost Savings
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Enablers5 min read
Innovation Stories Are Powerful, We Need to Get Them Right
Majorities Don't Just Rule, They Also Influence
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Practice5 min read
In An Age Of Disruption, Everyone Has To Adapt Eventually.
Most enterprises are still set up this way because it remains the most efficient way to organize tasks.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
In 1980 IBM Built The PC In Secret, Today It Is Betting on Collaboration to Create the Next Big Thing: Quantum Computing
"In the case of quantum computing, the technology is completely different and most of it was, until fairly recently, theoretical," he continued. "Only a small number of people understand how to build it.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Strategy6 min read
If You Want to Drive Truly Transformational Change, Avoid These 4 Myths
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
IBM's New "5 in 5" Predictions Point to a New Era of Innovation
The 2019 "5 in 5" list imagines how technology will revolutionize the food supply chain from "seed to shelf".
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Strategy5 min read
How To Compete In A World Ruled By Ecosystems
Computers followed a similar path. Digital technology had been around for decades when IBM launched the PC in 1981, yet it wouldn't be till the late 90s that we first started to see an impact on productivity.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Strategy5 min read
How Should Cities Attract Businesses?
The transformation underway now, however, will be fundamentally different than the digital revolution in many ways. First of all, rather than being centered around one technology
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Culture6 min read
How Experian's Networked Culture Drives Innovation
One of the most common questions I get asked by senior managers is "How can we find more innovative people?" I know the type they have in mind.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
Here's What You Really Need To Know About Quantum Computing
Quantum computing, as any expert will tell you, uses quantum effects such as superposition and entanglement to compute, unlike digital computers that use strings of ones and zeros.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Strategy5 min read
Here's What You Need to Know to Make AI Work for Your Business
"The first thing I suggest a company asks is 'what value can I create with AI?'" Sutton told me. "From there, you can figure out what data you need to drive those applications,
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future6 min read
Here's What Futurists Always Seem To Get Wrong
The problem is not so much with engineering, but economics and safety. We could build a flying car if we wanted to, but to make one that can compete with a regular automobile is another matter entirely.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
Future5 min read
Experts Keep Saying that the Robots Will Take Over. Here's Why They're Wrong
In 2013, a study at Oxford University found that 47% of jobs in the United States are likely to be replaced by robots over the next two decades.
Greg Satell · 29 April 2025
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