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    Freedom & Responsibility - The Netflix Way
    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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    The Power of Belief
    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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    Motivation
    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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    Marcus Rashford - Your Modern Day Change Leader
    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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    Jackie Robinson - Change Leader
    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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    The 6 Stages of Behaviour Change
    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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    Humanising the Physics of Change
    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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    Setting up your Organisation to Win
    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,...
    5 views0 comments
    Deurbanisation of Society
    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...
    6 views0 comments
    The Multiplier Effect of Personal Accountability of Digital Transformation
    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...
    4 views0 comments
    Unifying Digital Transformation and Climate Change to achieve Meaningful Progress
    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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    Tennis: The Language of Life
    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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    The Perfect Team - The Power of Safety
    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...
    16 views0 comments
    Toto Wolff - The Truth about True Leadership
    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...
    143 views0 comments
    Lombardi's Leadership of Character & Integrity
    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...
    34 views0 comments
    Surfing the Sigmoid Curve
    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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    The Tempo of Decision Making
    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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    The Socratic Method - Have you Questioned your culture?
    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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    A Vision of Purpose
    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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    The Strangle of Incentives on Creativity
    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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    Tribal Leadership - Fostering Human Instinct in our Transformation
    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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    The Jackson Eleven
    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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    The Personality Dimensions that Explain the Adoption and Use of Technology
    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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    Evaluating Digital Readiness – The Emotional Side of Organisational Change Management
    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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    The Big Stumble – Why do so many Digital Transformations Fail?
    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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    Why digitally transform in the first place?
    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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    The Cloud Availability vs. Security Debate
    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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    Living in the Clouds
    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...
    17 views0 comments
    Data Insights: Plugging in Business Value
    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...
    10 views0 comments
    What actually is a digital transformation?
    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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    Digital Factories – The incubators of agility
    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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    Digital Transformation: Where’s the evidence?
    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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    A Brief History of Transformation
    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...
    20 views0 comments

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