TASTE
Taste Matters More in an Age of Excess
TASTE
The Right-brained Organization in the AI era
In the AI era, taste is no longer an optional embellishment but has become a fundamental, critical decision for enterprises. It is the core of organizational capability and leadership.
01 Preface
Steve Jobs critiqued Microsoft for lacking taste, a prescient view now echoing in the AI era where taste becomes the defining competitive edge and demands a new organizational design.
02 Are the Left and Right Brains Really Different?
Explore the real science behind left and right brain differences, from historical discoveries to modern neuroimaging.
03 In the Age of Innovation, the Right Brain Reigns
Explore the shift from left-brain dominance to the rising need for right-brain creativity, and why innovation demands both thinking styles for success.
04 Smart and Stupid
Explore how our brains rely on fast intuitive thinking versus slow rational analysis, and why even brilliant minds routinely fall into the trap of stupidity.
05 Organizational Stupidity
Why do brilliant minds in top organizations collectively make catastrophic decisions? Explore the hidden dynamics of organizational stupidity and the power of taste to shape innovation.
06 The Rise of the Right-Brained Organization
Explore how the most innovative companies harness right-brained traits like user-centeredness and taste leadership to thrive in an era where AI commoditizes analytical skills and taste becomes the ultimate differentiator.
07 User-Centeredness
Explore how user-centeredness transcends traditional customer focus, why tech acceleration drives this shift, and how it shapes sustainable growth in the AI era.
08 What Is User Experience?
Explore why Steve Jobs believed technology alone is not enough and how his vision of user experience still challenges companies today to define what truly matters.
09 Innovation: Rebuilding Mental Models
Innovation fails when users cannot perceive value, not because demand is absent. True user experience design rebuilds mental models, paving a smooth intuitive path for adoption.
10 Sailing on the Winds
Innovation requires anti-traditional courage. This lesson explores how right-brained organizations harness imagination, intuition, and narrative to navigate uncharted business skies and achieve disruptive innovation.
11 Left or Right
Explore why Chinese enterprises struggle with disruptive innovation despite having visionary leaders and user focus, and discover how a Right-Brained Organization driven by taste leadership can bridge the gap.
12 The Innovator’s Dilemma
Explore how organizational taste determines innovation's fate, from why giants fall to disruptors. Learn the hidden logic behind The Innovator's Dilemma and how to break the cycle.
13 Reinventing the Value System
Discover why financial metrics stifle disruptive innovation and how leading organizations replace outdated value systems with time based indicators that reveal true worth early on.
14 Launching from the Carrier Deck
Explore how traditional organizations can launch like jets from a carrier deck, awakening right-brained potential through taste leadership, dramatic change rituals, and a user-centered mental model.
15 Taste Leadership
Explore how consistent taste, not just skill, builds true leadership. This lesson reveals the secret behind iconic leaders like Jobs and Musk and shows how to apply it in the AI era.















