Everyone agrees with the strategy. So why does nothing change? Agreement isn’t commitment, and commitment doesn’t guarantee action. Explore why leaders need to move beyond securing buy-in and start creating the ownership, influence and conditions that make change happen.

We encourage people to be optimistic and believe in their ideas. Yet when someone questions our assumptions, it can feel like criticism. What if challenging what we believe isn’t pessimism, but the key to making meaningful progress?

We spend a lot of time teaching people how to innovate. – Design thinking skills– Creativity skills– Experimentation skills– Problem-solving skills But innovation rarely happens

Smart people spend an unreasonable amount of time waiting for clarity. The thinking goes… – More information – More planning – More confidence It makes

Time blocking assumes the problem is a shortage of hours — but creative thinking often needs a different kind of time altogether. Drawing on the hare brain/tortoise mind distinction from Innovation in Action, this piece looks at why reflection and incubation get crowded out by work that proves its value faster, and sets out four conditions — space, psychological safety, broken routines, and the right balance of autonomy and direction — that protect the slower thinking creativity depends on.

Most change leaders push for buy-in from everyone at once and watch resistance kill the initiative before it has anything to show. The research says otherwise: you only need the right minority. Here’s how to find them.