Solving complex and intractable problems is the torture test of a leader’s abilities. Yet in many corporate settings we buy into the fiction that the best solutions must be a) imported b) expensive. But what if your problem has already been solved and you didn’t even know it? In 1990, Jerry Sternin arrived in Hanoi with his wife Monique. They were there to open a Save The Children office as well as to help solve to the nation-wide crisis of child malnutrition in which up t

In 1993, a communication failure led to the biggest own goal in the history of American science A few miles outside the sleepy town of Waxahachie Texas lies the dejected remnants of one of America’s most stupendous scientific undertakings. At nearly 27 kilometers long it was to be the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a subterranean behemoth designed by American physicists to isolate something called the Higgs boson particle. According to Ainissa Ramirez, a materials s

Each Sunday 2 minute iNCiTE! reflects not just on the role communication and storytelling plays in driving change but also on the underlying psychology of the change process itself. You can’t have one without the other and, contrary to popular practice, no-one has ever PowerPointed change into existence. Nowhere are the headwinds stronger for the change agent than on the high seas of sustainability policy-making. A few posts back, I wrote about youth climate activist Greta