I'm so unimpressed with conventional wisdom that I wrote a book: Everything You Know About Business is Wrong: How to Unstick Your Thinking and Upgrade Your Rules of Thumb
Recently I've been finding useful new ideas for management in all sorts of disciplines: social psychology, psychoanalysis, behavioural economics, cybernetics... basically, anywhere but "management."
After 20 years in the bowels of large organisations I now work as a consultant. I define my thing as discontinuous improvment: helping clients achieve more powerful results, usually by helping them look at issues differently and redefine them.
Stories, Hacks, & Barriers
Groundbreaking ideas and practices from Alastair Dryburgh
There is no recipe for innovation - after all, if someone has written down the recipe, it can't be innovative any longer. There are however principles. What matters is understanding the difference.
The problem is not that we are thinking about management challenges with concepts that are decades out of date, but that we are thinking about them with brains that are millenia out of date.