Killing the Messenger “The 300” Copyright Warner Brothers “Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” — John Wooden In 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 crashed while on approach to an airport…
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All Roads Lead To The Future Back — A Vision and Spoke Model
The Romans gave us a network of roads. Apple gave us the Digital Hub. Leaders, it is time to give your people a vision, which they can execute. In this post-Covid world, vision is more important than ever before.
“If you can hold it in your head, you can hold it in your hand.” — Bob Proctor
Odyssey Leadership, Sandcastle Strategy or Surfing Mindset
https://www.deviantart.com/aquasixio/art/It-was-fun-while-it-lasted-638713529 “Making good judgments and acting wisely when one has complete data, facts, and information is not leadership. It’s not even management. It’s bookkeeping. Leadership requires ability to make wise decisions and act responsibly upon…
Scarcity Drives Frugal Innovation: Using Our Fantasie
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — Jeff Bezos This study in Infant Behaviour and Development…
When the Gale of Creative Destruction Blows, Do you Build Walls or Windmills?
“When the wind of change blows, some build walls, while others build windmills.” — Chinese Proverb When change is thrust upon us, we react in several predictable ways. This is true for industries, organisations, and individuals. Reaction 1:…
Die Into Your Innovations: Fail Enough for the Winners to Emerge
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Babies are born with the ability to make and hear all the sounds in all the languages of the world. Within every newborn…
Organisational Drag & Gravitational Pull
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” ― John Maynard Keynes It takes grit, determination and luck to establish a successful organisation. Once an organisation is…
CFO: Chief Flexibility Officer in an Age of Rapid Change
“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”― Jack Welch As the pace of change speeds up and the business environment becomes less…
Search Mode V Execution Mode: Lessons from LEGO
Explorer by Unidcolor “Companies need to figure out how to execute and innovate in parallel.” — Steve Blank (Innovation Show Episode 194) Recently, my 6-year-old son completed all the LEGO sets, which he had received as Christmas…
Change or Transformation? Sheep-dip Innovation or Committed Innovation?
“Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.” — Stanley McChrystal In a business environment characterised rapid change being flexible and adaptable to change is an increasingly coveted skill. Change is…