Month: December 2023
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Shipped in 2023
Wow. This is my tenth year of doing an end of year retrospective taking a look at the shape of the work which I’ve done over the past 12 months (previous years: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021). I find it a helpful thing to do. It’s useful to take a step back and think about the mix…
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The Learning Organisation
In all my work whether it’s about organisational agility, leadership, marketing or transformation, I am increasingly of the opinion that the critical capability of the modern organisation is the ability to learn fast. And I don’t mean training or new skills (though this too is not unimportant). I mean to learn about the optimal way…
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Google Firestarters: Kevin Kelly
A brand new episode of Google Firestarters is now LIVE, featuring the peerless Kevin Kelly, author and co-founder of Wired. Kevin’s insights are fantastic in this. He talks about why technology optimism is the only way to make a future that we really want to live in and why we need imagination and a ‘willing…
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Perception vs Perspective
What’s the difference between perception and perspective? Why does this matter? It may be a subtle distinction but understanding this difference can really help us to improve or change something. Perception is how we translate the world around us (often through sensory inputs). It is how make sense of something, and what enables us to…