Paul Taylor

Idea that local communities should have much greater influence and control over the plans, decisions, and public services that affect their lives. #power

Innovation is only a small piece of what happens with technology. Innovation is often what comes after technology. #innovation #technology

Words seemingly lose their power through overuse, and nowhere is this more proven than in the workplace. #words #work

If you Google Do You Need An Innovation Strategy? you’ll get just under one billion articles affirming Yes, you absolutely do. #innovation #view

The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that aims to make cities or towns more liveable by ensuring that all essential services.

As a culture, we don’t do very well with silence. We are taught to say our piece as a sign we are engaged. #silence #introverts

We all need a little outside help, for sure. But ultimately it’s your company, your purpose, and your people. #innovation #lead

There are always questions about how innovation or design teams spend their time and whether it’s worthwhile. #innovation

I say desire rather than need for consistency and standardization, for control and accountability, comes at a cost: reduced creativity and flexibility

We know that constant exposure to the news is not good for us. Media saturation overload exists.#media #news #productivity

We build transactional services despite the fact that we know that it’s relationships which make many services work. #advisors #trust

Large organisations and teams are about the concentration and accumulation of power, whereas small teams give power away. #teams

A legacy organisation is defined as one where all processes, technology and ways of working where in place before the modern internet. #organization

Constraints help you better understand the problem. When any and every option is in front of you, it’s difficult to decide what to do.

Language, labels and jargon create confusion, risk and stigma but they also result in unnecessarily complicated and burdensome systems. #inclusive

If you’re serious about solving the right problems, you need to be very good at hearing a lot of diverse opinions and seeking out a way forward.

We exist at a time that has competing, intersecting, and sometimes conflicting crises. #business #busy

Never look vertically. Look horizontally. Once you’ve seen the wasted time, money and effort you can never unsee it. #business

One thing we can count on though is our organisational ability to cope with change is going to be stretched to breaking point. #change

Sticking a big fat zero on the problem doesn’t solve it. It can inspire new thinking and galvanise people to a cause. #ideas #innovation

Don’t buy into the concept of organisations having a culture of innovation but do believe that you can have a culture conducive to innovation.

By calling problems all the same we risk dealing with them all the same. Or worse, doing nothing because when everything is a crisis nothing really is.

Enlightened organizations know that people focused services build on existing strengths and promote responsibility instead.

As humans we have become more and more impatient, demanding immediacy and instant gratification through increasingly digital and frictionless experiences.

Follow all these AND got some data about the cost of the problem you should have enough evidence to get backing behind your idea.

Trust in national politics appears to be tanking across the board – both blurring and eroding traditional allegiances to the left or right.

The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated digital inequality and the gaps that still exist in digital access and capability.

The danger is that with a focus on all-out collaboration you miss out on the creativity of introverts. #business #collaboration

The cost of lockdowns, poor energy policy and new sustainability initiatives are conspiring to hit the poorest first and worst.

Is busyness an indicator of having too much work to do, or a sign of a lack of empowerment? #business #busy #bureaucracy

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, but happen much faster than you expect. #business #success #time

When companies want to change they almost always add something to the mix. A new team, a new senior leader, a new process, a new system.

It’s time to stop being slave to speed, to seeing technology and apps and digital transformations as saviours of our time. #time #work

If all we did was view how people behave slightly less cynically, maybe we’d create a much more relaxed, healthy and happier world.

Planned obsolescence is the practice of deliberately creating consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and therefore need to be frequently replaced

For almost all companies hybrid work is an experiment, and most experiments fail. The best experiments are small and build upon previous evidence.

A problem focused culture is far more likely to generate great ideas as great ideas address a human want or necessity. #innovation #ideas

Who is really winning from transformation? It’s not necessarily going to be you or your customers. #transformartion #business

We are in control of how we contribute to the the distraction and time wasting that happens every day in the modern world of work.

In markets without much competition, organisations can deliver bad service not because of poor design and management but because they can.

We have an opportunity to be more different, more memorable and make more change than we ever have. #innovation #ideas #people

Enlightened employers will let their employees experiment with ways of working that look after people, the planet and productivity.

Reversing stigma means having uncomfortable conversations that risk offending all parties. Are we up for it? #poor #world 

In reality, both mostly good and mostly bad organisations make mistakes, but the mostly good ones are better at learning from them.

Not all organisations with creative spaces are engaged in innovation theatre, but all organisations engaged in innovation theatre have creative spaces.

We’re obsessed with big change but we’re underestimating the power of the small changes that lie more easily within our reach?

Einstein believed the quality of the solution you generate is in direct proportion to your ability to identify the problem you hope to solve.

This isn’t about requiring people back in the office, but letting them influence where they can do their best work and knowing where it happens.

The best way to emerge from a state of fear is by being social, looking after friends and neighbours and being part of a community. #fear

No-one can predict the future but history shows us that it often turns out very different than we imagine. #future #predictions