Insights, perspectives and thinking from the Mangrove team - on growth, innovation, strategy and the world of business.
For the 30 years I’ve worked in innovation, claimed failure rates have remained remarkably high – anywhere between 80% and 95% depending on which data source you trust most. Critically, these are in-market failure rates, not ‘in-process’ failure rates, which, let’s be honest, should be reframed from failures to lessons learned.
In a world of rapidly accelerating legislation and incentivised behaviour change towards more sustainable practices.
It’s that time of year again – the one we all look forward to. No, not the wave of relief that comes with the beginning of the new school year…
Ever find yourself comparing your life with the flamboyant next door neighbours or the Facebook-addicted friends from school, so busy posting their seemingly perfect lives on social media?
Whatever your view of the recent Oasis reformation, or your feelings on the ethics of surge ticket pricing.
Do you ever get the nagging feeling you’ve been chasing the wrong dream? It’s a particularly pertinent question in the week we head back to the office after the summer break.
The Good Growth Circle – a community for those tackling ‘good growth’ (the twin challenges of sustainability and commercial reality).
Nobody wants to lay awake at night worrying about the future of the planet or whether you’ve done enough in your own pursuit of a cleaner more sustainable world.
A quick Google search assures me that it was Michelangelo who once said: ‘the greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.’
A coming-of-age daughter means I’ve recently been forced into the small car market. You’d think finding something small, safe, insurable and green would be easy enough.
This week, a thought-provoking article from the Business of Fashion caught our attention. It suggests consumers might be growing tired of brands that constantly push their sustainability credentials.
Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura once said: ‘Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.’ The underlying principle of his thinking was that diffused responsibility leads to inaction.
