Oliver Nowak
Why you Can’t Manipulate Transformation
Why are your customers your customers? Why are your employees your employees? If you don’t have a simple answer to these questions, don’t...
Oliver Nowak
- Sep 15
- 3 min
Telling the Story of Change
Life is a maze. We have no idea what’s around the corner and we often don’t know where we’re going. At least for most of us, where we are...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 18
- 4 min
Creating a truly Transformative Experience
If you asked the majority of people to describe themselves, the words ‘creative’ and ‘problem-solver’ would probably feature in some...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jul 13
- 5 min
Freedom & Responsibility - The Netflix Way
I have just finished reading Marc Randolph’s book “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea”. As...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 13
- 4 min
The Power of Belief
How much do you truly believe that you are going to be successful? Have you ever struggled under the weight of a lack of belief? It might...
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Oliver Nowak
- Apr 8
- 4 min
Motivation
Motivation. If there’s one thing that leaders of a business would want to bottle up and access whenever they want, surely motivation...
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Oliver Nowak
- Feb 8
- 5 min
Marcus Rashford - Your Modern Day Change Leader
For a growing number of sporting stars, their media platforms are now managed by PR and marketing experts. It’s a way to enhance their...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jan 10
- 6 min
Jackie Robinson - Change Leader
To many of this generation, and particularly here in the UK, the name Jackie Robinson isn’t going to mean much. Personally, I only came...
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Oliver Nowak
- Dec 7, 2021
- 4 min
The 6 Stages of Behaviour Change
Anyone who has ever tried implementing a successful digital transformation programme can speak of the resistance they felt at one stage...
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Oliver Nowak
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
Humanising the Physics of Change
Human beings are very often resistant to change, but to understand why we first need to understand the principle of change in the first...
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Oliver Nowak
- Oct 7, 2021
- 5 min
Setting up your Organisation to Win
In Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People he refers to the 6 paradigms of human interaction: Win/Win, Win/Lose, Lose/Win,...
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Oliver Nowak
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
Deurbanisation of Society
Urbanisation has long been a sign of progress, it has been something developing countries have strived towards. Historically, it has been...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Multiplier Effect of Personal Accountability of Digital Transformation
What is Total Quality Management? I’m really excited about this article, so I’m just going to jump right in. Total Quality Management...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 5, 2021
- 5 min
Unifying Digital Transformation and Climate Change to achieve Meaningful Progress
I have just finished reading Bill Gates’ How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The reason why I love this book is that across various...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jul 13, 2021
- 8 min
Tennis: The Language of Life
With Wimbledon in the rear view mirror, the post-Wimbledon blues are strong, so in my mourning I was inspired to write about one of my...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 10, 2021
- 5 min
The Perfect Team - The Power of Safety
Google - The Perfect Team In 2015 Google presented findings from their research into “What makes a Google team effective?”. Over 2 years...
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Oliver Nowak
- May 11, 2021
- 7 min
Toto Wolff - The Truth about True Leadership
The subject of my next article is one of my sporting and leadership idols, Toto Wolff. As a passionate Formula 1 fan, I have watched...
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Oliver Nowak
- Apr 15, 2021
- 5 min
Lombardi's Leadership of Character & Integrity
Who is Vince Lombardi? For those on this side of the pond who are unfamiliar with Vince Lombardi, he is known as arguably the greatest...
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Oliver Nowak
- Apr 14, 2021
- 6 min
Surfing the Sigmoid Curve
What is the Sigmoid Curve? Another one of life’s great temptations of simplification is to see life, business, society, and success as...
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Oliver Nowak
- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
The Tempo of Decision Making
John Boyd’s OODA Loop In this article I wanted to zone in on decision making. What do we need to have in place to act quicker and more...
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Oliver Nowak
- Feb 11, 2021
- 5 min
The Socratic Method - Have you Questioned your culture?
Socrates: “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing”. I have spoken a lot about culture, but what actually is culture? It’s an...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
A Vision of Purpose
The State of Play It is generally agreed that digital transformation has enormous potential, it influences how companies structure...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jan 12, 2021
- 5 min
The Strangle of Incentives on Creativity
The Wrong Incentives The candle problem was created by Karl Duncker in 1945 as a cognitive performance test which tested an individual’s...
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Oliver Nowak
- Dec 11, 2020
- 9 min
Tribal Leadership - Fostering Human Instinct in our Transformation
What is a tribe? Continuing on from the previous blog, I wanted to look at the concept of leadership in more detail. Again, this concept...
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Oliver Nowak
- Nov 22, 2020
- 10 min
The Jackson Eleven
I’ve been talking a lot about change culture and creating an environment for change but not really addressed the question as to how you...
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Oliver Nowak
- Nov 3, 2020
- 7 min
The Personality Dimensions that Explain the Adoption and Use of Technology
The Technology Investment Decision As this blog has developed, the human side of technology adoption has started to capture my interest...
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Oliver Nowak
- Oct 11, 2020
- 6 min
Evaluating Digital Readiness – The Emotional Side of Organisational Change Management
A New Mission Statement My analysis in previous articles has brought me to a turning point. I have assessed what a digital transformation...
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Oliver Nowak
- Sep 21, 2020
- 7 min
The Big Stumble – Why do so many Digital Transformations Fail?
For years, companies have been raving about their digital transformation initiatives. Every time without fail, it pricks the ears up of...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 23, 2020
- 4 min
Why digitally transform in the first place?
Survival of the Fittest To close off release week I wanted to give you some of thoughts on the big question Why? Again, as I entered the...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 22, 2020
- 7 min
The Cloud Availability vs. Security Debate
In the digital age, we want to make our data to be 100% available to ourselves whenever and wherever but we want it to be 0% available to...
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Oliver Nowak
- Aug 11, 2020
- 6 min
Living in the Clouds
Are we reaching breaking point? In the last decade or so, the race to digitisation has forced organisations to deploy more and more new...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jul 27, 2020
- 4 min
Data Insights: Plugging in Business Value
With the digital transformations of many businesses of all shapes and sizes in full flow, their operations and services have become a...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
What actually is a digital transformation?
One of the main motivations of my blog is to condense the 0’s and 1’s of digital transformations into a language that anyone can...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
Digital Factories – The incubators of agility
In the last blog I explored how evidence has shown that the most agile companies are the most resilient. In this article, I thought I...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
Digital Transformation: Where’s the evidence?
Advanced digital technology is not a new idea, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) research has been around since 1956. Somewhat...
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Oliver Nowak
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
A Brief History of Transformation
Kicking off my blog series, I wanted to give a brief history of transformation, for in the words of Terry Pratchett: The First Industrial...
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