The Truth Is: Teams Get Stuck

Over the last 10 years, I've been working with teams from international startups, midsize companies, and corporates on their route to new processes, services, and products. Here's what I learned:

When I started I kept thinking that the core problem is that teams do not have creative ideas or the fancy tools to deal with innovation. I even started a consulting network just to solve exactly for that problem. I could not have been more wrong!

While working with 200+ teams, I got to know the smartest and most amazing people - from companies like Bayer, Viessmann, Tesla, Siemens, and so many more. I've also met the hardest working people in startups and government organizations, all eager to make this country a better place.

So what did I mainly see? Teams get stuck. 

You know what stops them? Not the missing ideas; not innovation process or the unfinished pitch decks. What does stop them, is being too comfortable with the status quo. Or to be even more precise: Anticipated losses from the possible change ahead. 

These expected, often invalidated losses can occur on three levels: The individual level, the process level, and the cultural level.

You want to learn more? Listen to the talk I gave at the Amsterdam fair in May and feel free to download the Loss Awareness Canvas (LAC) from my new website: https://lnkd.in/eQPCgbWt

One more thing: I can't solve this alone. I need your help to bring honest conversations about loss - in teams as well as in our society. So please help me spread the word. And thanks to Elisabeth Heid & Judit Teichert for also raising awareness on this topic!

My talk in Amsterdam at the INPACS GmbH Sustainability School: https://lnkd.in/ew_HexKD