“One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.” — Rumi Have you ever seen a crab shell on the beach and assumed it to…
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Gee”S”e Curves: Burning Out People and Business Models
“Achieving great accomplishments doesn’t matter much if everyone who helps you get there dies along the way.” — Paul White Ph.D. One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all…
Corporate Time Warps and The Semmelweis Effect
Time is Relative ”The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” — Niccolo Machiavelli A farmer is sitting on his porch in a chair, hanging out. A friend walks up to the porch to say…
The S-tockdale Paradox — Business Ambidexterity and S-urviving Disruption
WallDevil Paradox = a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true On September 9th 1965, while flying on a mission over North Vietnam, commander…
Functional Fixedness — Critical Thinking
ShirtWoot “We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” — Buckminster Fuller One of the joys of many childhoods is building a den, a clubhouse or a spaceship out of…
CDO = Chief Deckchair Organiser? — Why Companies Need North Stars
Titanic — James Cameron rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic (idiomatic) To do something pointless or insignificant that will soon be overtaken by events, or that contributes nothing to the solution of a current problem. The role…
Staying in Day 1 — Disruptive Leadership Lessons from Jeff Bezos
Groundhog Day Movie If you have not already read Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders, I highly recommend it. (The link is at the end of this post) What Bezos calls staying in Day 1 is the…
Innovation lessons from The All Blacks — Ahead of the (S) Curve
This post explains innovation while looking at the All Blacks Rugby Team, it covers GroupThink, Culture, Strategy, Innovation and Leadership. Stay with me on the S curve stuff, it will all come together at the…
All Good Things… Marshmallows, Amazon, Leadership and Thinking Long
Thanks to Threadless In the 1960s Stanford professor and psychologist Walter Mischel carried a study, which became known as the Stanford marshmallow experiment. It went like so; children were offered a choice between having one…
Diversity…of thought, not skin colour
In 1951, Polish psychologist and pioneer of social psychology in the United States Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments on conformity. Groups of eight participants took part in a simple task. All but one…