Analysis

December 28, 2021

The top five insights from #FutureProofonCulture (so far)

We’ve spoken with experts and emerged with five key questions innovation leaders should be asking themselves about culture.


Thomas Brown

7 min read

You can throw all the capital, resources and talent you like at innovation. But if you’re not also investing leadership time and energy into evolving the culture of your organisation, you’re likely to run into some challenges.

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