Observations on innovation, leadership and organizational transformation accumulated over 20+ years of work with executive teams.
There is a natural tendency in organizations to approach innovation processes with predefined solutions. The result is predictable: lots of initial enthusiasm, little real transformation.
There is a specific moment in every LEGO® Serious Play session with executive teams when something shifts. Not in the bricks. In the people.
Co-create has become a term emptied of meaning. Everyone "co-creates." Almost no one actually does it.
Installing an innovation culture is not the same as running innovation workshops. Confusing the two is the most expensive mistake organizations make.
A good facilitation process disappears. Not because it isn't present, but because people don't experience it as an external intervention. They experience it as their own.
Fear is not the obstacle to transformation. It is its condition of possibility. Organizations that avoid it don't transform. Those that learn to work with it do.
Maria Ximena shares perspectives regularly on LinkedIn.