Caterpillars, Butterflies And The Future of Work

<p>"Never put the financial cart before the building a better future horse", says Gary Mitchell, #TransformationExpert. On this episode of #TheInquisitorPodcast I have #Futurist and #Collaboration expert Professor Eddie Obeng and #Innovation chief for #Helsingborg Patrick Lindqvist.</p> <p>A lively, rowdy and insightful conversation packed with some uncomfortable home truths about why innovation, change and transformation programmes fail and what you can do to make them successful.</p> <p>Gary helps leadership and organisations unite around a good strategy, in which it believes, develop the plans for delivery, and gain confidence in the outcomes. He has developed a reliable formula for success for transformation and strategy execution. For over 35 years Gary has lead and fixed some of the most difficult transformation programmes, helping leadership teams communicate strategy in one conversation. He helps them understand what actions you and your leadership team could take to put the building blocks for success in place, or to resolve painful strategy execution or transformation issues.</p> <p>Eddie is a pioneer in accelerated collaboration to drive lasting change and ensure adoption. What others are just now exploring, Eddie has been doing for the past 19 years. He works with diverse, globally distributed teams and enables them to get important work done in a fraction of the time by removing constraints, ego and location barriers. He shares his fantastic MetaMorph(TM) model to help you understand what makes change work.</p> <p>Patrick is joint chief advisor to The City of Helsingborg. Their leaders' goal is to become one of Europe's most innovative cities by 2022. Patrick and his co-chief, Lisa Olsson are helping the city to establish new forms of city governance to foster innovation in the short and long term. They coach and advise the leaders and Management teams of the city in their adoption of new organisational concepts and establishing a culture that encourages innovation. Their one explicit goal is