Paul Taylor

Are big problems really more difficult to solve?

The Cost Of Complaining Just Collapsed

Community Connection Isn’t An Optional Extra

The Ratchet Effect: Why Bad Rules Tend To Stick Around

Positive Deviance Versus Deficit Fetishism

AI Is Doing The Paperwork Of Centralisation, Faster.

Is Our ‘Finite Pool of Attention’ Sabotaging Strategic Thinking?

The Paradox of Standardisation

Organisational Main Character Syndrome

The Existential Threat Of ‘Work About Work’

The Overton Window: How Unthinkable Ideas Become The Norm

How To Build A Bridge To A ‘Rogue Silo’ Team

The Watery Tomato: Why Most Innovative Practice Doesn’t Scale

Fixing The Foundations Vs Innovation Leapfrogging

Four Picture Diary. Puducherry: Community creativity, mythopoeia, and booze bureaucracy

Four Picture Diary: Digital Transformation, Airport Counselling and English Themed Pubs

Four Picture Diary: Agonda, Jugaad, and the innovation suspicion of drones.

Picture Diary: Palolem, fish curry, roaming cows, and why would you wash your balls in a public toilet?

Four Pictures Diary: Monkeys and Place Naming Conventions

Four a Day Picture Diary: Elephants and Amusing ATMs

Four a Day Picture Diary: Safari Bureaucracy

Four a Day Picture Diary: The Road To Ranthambore

Four A Day Picture Diary – Rebooted

Organisational Antibodies Reject Place-Based and Decentralised Approaches

Why Decentralised Place-Based Approaches Can Fail

Why Don’t We Enable More Heretical Thinking At Work?

Concentrate on relationships and metrics will improve. Concentrate on metrics and relationships will fail.

Complaints Rise Because Our Organisations Are Designed To Generate Complaints

The Collaboration Paradox: Why We Say We Love It, But Our Systems Fight It

Are Small Companies Really Better At Innovation?

Why We Must Pivot to Community Enabling

How Can We Create Systems Where Knowledge Becomes Contagious?

Have we lost our ability to do big, ambitious things as communities?

Our Obsession With League Tables, And The Performance Paradox

How To (Re)Build An Innovation Lab

Digital Transformation and Our Failure To Learn From Past Mistakes

The Way Out of The ‘Performance Myth’

The Problem with a Narrow Focus on Efficiency

Sectors Reimagined as Products, and the Move to Agile Place

Transforming Public Services with Agile Principles

The Missing Ingredient For Community-Led Innovation Is Permission