Category Archives: thealphaswarmer_commentaries

leader versus businessman

Break Old School Tendencies Through Entrepreneurial Processes To Drive Growth Within Enterprises

The core strategic management challenge for executives is centred on finding the optimal point when allocating resources between revenue and cost centres. When doing this, leaders and managers often have… Read more »

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Playing With Fire – Animal Spirits Ensconce Progress and Trepidation In Economies

The global economic environment is traversing new frontiers. Textbooks, historical data and policy frameworks of the past are blunt in the face of diverse trade war, global monetary policy divergence… Read more »

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creativity is the new productivity

An Integrated Perspective On Traversing The Era Of Productivity Scarcity To Establish The Creative Paradigm & Let Innovation Flourish

Behavioral elements such as anxieties, resistance to change, inertia, push and pull are omnipresent forces that dominate and inhibit the proclivity to be creative and adopt new standards that provide… Read more »

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hubris and avarice leads to nothing

Avarice, Hubris, Ignorance, Jealousy and Antagonism – Counterproductive Forces That Stifle Innovation

The most prolific literary masters, poets, entrepreneurs, kings/leaders of archaic kingdoms. religious prophets and sacred texts over the centuries have warned us, prophetically, that pride, avarice, hubris, jealousy and antagonism… Read more »

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The Rise With (Not Of) The Machines: AI Will Augment Human Capabilities

Jack Ma and Elon Musk recently engaged, debated and pronounced their diverging viewpoints with respect to artificial intelligence and the fundamental questions surrounding a machines capability in executing tasks and… Read more »

Estimated word count: 750 words

The Seven Artefacts of Self Organisation – Tools For Managing Complexity Adaptive Systems

Today’s managers operate in a highly interconnected, volatile and complex environment where the use of traditional concepts, tools and frameworks rooted on classical and behavioural schools of thought fail in… Read more »

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Disruptive Innovation Aims To Bring Consumption From Non-Consumption Contexts

Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen fathered the term disruptive innovation in 1995 whilst collectively and insightfully studying and evaluating case studies across the telecommunication, healthcare, technology, consumer goods and electronic industries…. Read more »

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thealphaswarmer

Disrupting Overt Sabotage To Drive Engagement and Innovation – Exhale Control, Inhale Heterachy and Distributed Authority

Multinationals and businesses of all dimensions profess that they harness and nurture innovation, however I have seen with my own four eyes this concept being absent in the corporate laboratory… Read more »

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thealphaswarmer insights and commentaries

Balancing Tension: The Dynamic Coordinator Role Within Innovation Systems

One of my favourite books of all time has to be Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Timbles 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. Within the nomenclature, the authors… Read more »

Estimated word count: 421 words