by Andrea Kates | Aug 18, 2022 | Innovation
Three weeks ago, I read a very honest—and heartbreaking—post from a woman in London whose inspiring early-stage company was calling it quits. About two years ago, she committed to solving the workplace burnout issue. She was chosen to be part of a prestigious...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 23, 2022 | Innovation
How to Gather Strong Support for Your Innovation Goals In this month’s residency in Barcelona, we did a poll on why innovation doesn’t reach its potential (at the least) or (even worse) why innovation is dead on arrival. The top blockers that came up as reasons why...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 21, 2022 | Future of Work
An 18-month long digital transformation project was in its final days, and we were all getting ready for the victory lap to celebrate success. It hadn’t been easy to design, orchestrate, and implement all of the details to get everyone on board with a new...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 18, 2022 | Business Strategy
It was a great field trip through Copenhagen. Twenty of us piled into a bus for a business innovation tasting tour—complete with opportunities to open the doors of warehouse spaces, cool Nordic designed creative offices, inspiring alternative nooks and crannies of...
by Andrea Kates | Jul 14, 2022 | Innovation, Management
You never know when you should say yes to a stranger. I was in residence at Copenhagen Business School, with a lot of back-to-back sessions for the students and the business community stacked close together. In the flurry of activity after one big forum, one of the...
