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An interview with Tom Donaldson, LEGO Group’s SVP of Creative Play Lab, on how the company came up with its new SMART Brick. source https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-remarkably-simple-5-word-question-lego-asks-before-building-anything-new/91286889

… and two other tricky workplace dilemmas. source https://www.inc.com/alison-green/new-employee-missed-4th-day-of-work/91266322

His story is a masterclass in pulling off a pivot. source https://www.inc.com/annabel-burba/this-founder-was-nearly-homeless-after-3-failed-startup-ideas-then-he-built-a-150-million-business/91277930

It’s become almost a cliché to talk about how consistently organizational change fails. Study after study finds that roughly three-quarters of change efforts don’t achieve their objectives. There are underlying forces that work against us adapting to change—including synaptic, network and cost effects—that lead to resistance.  Another problem lies in how we study change itself.ContinueContinue reading “This one key insight will change how you think about change”

Yes, there are the New Year’s traditions of setting ambitious goals and ditching bad habits, but one evergreen resolution that ought to top lists is to banish bad design. Why endure something that simply doesn’t work (or is an affront to aesthetics) any longer than we have to?  In the spirit of fresh starts, weContinueContinue reading “What 11 top designers want to redesign in 2026”