Month: September 2025
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Think-prompt-think
In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight and robbed them with his face uncovered. When police arrested him hours later using surveillance footage, Wheeler was genuinely shocked. He’d rubbed lemon juice on his face (the same substance used in invisible ink) believing that it would make him invisible to cameras.…
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Why good ideas die and how to save them
This week I was running a three day workshop with a group of leaders from an education foundation on the topic of connecting strategy through to execution. We got on to the topic of innovation and began discussing Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The talented group of engineers, computer programmers and scientists that came…
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AI, creativity, and lived cultural philosophies
When I gave a talk to a group of creatives and production agency leaders earlier this year I tried to articulate the reasons why AI would, for a while at least, struggle to capture the indefinable essence of a human-generated work of high creativity. Dr Rebecca Marks (in her wonderful article on art in the age…
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How AI supercharges strategy and planning
I ran a session with a leadership team last week in which we were working through how AI could be a true partner throughout the strategy development and deployment process. One of the issues in discussing this subject is the sheer breadth of application. Similarly to the innovation process, there’s just so many ways in…