The Death of the Controlling Mind – Part 1
The Death of the Controlling Mind? Part 1: A Modern-Day Fable (Working in the 4th Industrial Revolution) 6th September 2022 The vibration of Julie…
Leadership
The Power of the Ignorant Leader
Strive to be a Stupid Leader Stupid - Adjective – Lacking Knowledge or awareness In this 4th Industrial Revolution characterized by the massive disru…
Innovation the Hybrid Way
It used to be that companies looking for substantial growth could comfortably rely on one or two dominant innovation frameworks to guide their work, su…
The Tyranny of Models
I am passionate about helping organisations become Intrapreneurial. Supporting their cultural re-birth. Witnessing their transformation into vibrant, h…
The Two Forms of Value Creation
The Dell-ASUS story that Harvard University’s Clayton Christensen refers to as 'a greek tragedy' is a good example to understand the different, and som…
Intrapreneurship in Action – Ashgate Hospicecare
Background I became aware of Ashgate Hospicecare through a chance meeting with Matt Corbishley their Director of H.R. at a conference in London. Matt …
Was JFK right?
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death." John F. Kennedy Well, I am not saying JFK d…
Are leadership teams paying lip service to culture?
Whilst I wouldn’t want to bet my house on Peter Drucker actually saying that “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” the quote attributed to him by form…
The Murmuration Model – Building an Intrapreneurial Culture
As the large October pumpkin coloured sun gently falls to earth over the rolling Yorkshire Wolds I sit and watch in awe as a dynamic, dramatic dance pl…
Innovation Failure: We all need f*ckup nights
“Tis a lesson you should heed: Try, try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.” Proverb by William Edward Hickson …
Organisational adaptability – leadership challenges
Back in 1999 IBM’s Stephen Haeckel introduced the concept of the adaptive enterprise. At the heart of such an organisation is the ability to sense wha…
Innovators and organizational doublethink
Both my grandparents and in-laws grew up behind the iron curtain, and so I would regularly hear stories of the alternate reality they would be forced t…
Human-centred innovation
Design thinking teaches us to think about human-centred need and design – that to be successful and release engaging products, they should be driven fr…
Artificial ‘Intelligence’ Leadership is here already
Artificial Intelligence Leadership is here already... The last year or so has been awash with stories of jobs being automated and the robots taking ov…
How feedback opens the door to innovation
The business literature is awash with tales of organizations (and leaders) that struggle to adapt to change. If you boil this down to its very essence…
It takes a visionary
I meet and talk to visionary innovation leaders all the time. I’m not going to lie, selling the concept of managing ideas to drive innovation throughou…
Innovation Leadership – not as we knew it!
Saying there is a memorable moment in the TV series ‘Blackadder goes Forth’ is like saying that the sea contains a fish! Quite frankly, Rowan Atkinson …
True Leadership
There is so much written about ‘Leadership’ today that a quick search on Amazon returns almost 180,000 titles! Most of us have probably read some of t…
Stop measuring engagement and engage
If we spent less time measuring how engaged our employee are, we could spend more time simply engaging them. The statement might seem obvious, but rea…
Taking responsibility in a changing world
"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you," You will no doubt recognise the above as the famous …