Opinion

November 17, 2020

What Dominic Cummings’ failure teaches us about corporate innovation

Cummings understood the first rule of change management: get top level buy-in, but forgot the second: find allies.


Maija Palmer

5 min read

The psychodrama of Boris Johnson suddenly firing his chief advisor Dominic Cummings gripped the UK at the end of last week. Many speculated on what this might mean for Brexit talks, or whether it would result in more harmonious relations between the UK prime minister and the rest of his party.

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