6 digital tools that save me 350 hours a year
Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day to get through all that we have to do? Over the last ten years I’ve taken an…
6 Questions for a Successful Strategy
It’s the weekend and you receive an unexpected call from your manager. The team has been asked to prepare a strategy within the next month to be delivered to the…
Finding Flow At Work: 20 Tips To Overcoming Overwhelm & Eliminating Boredom
Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed or, the reverse, bored at work? Do you find that time goes slower when this happens and that everything becomes a struggle? We wouldn’t be human if…
How we adopted the iPhone 22 times faster than telephone
We are living in a time of accelerated change driven by digital advancements. Right now this wave of change is creating new careers for managers, new niches for businesses, and…
How to Discover New Talents and Reach your Goals Faster with Experiments
Over the last 5 years I’ve learnt as much if not more from running ‘experiments’ as I have from any specific training programs. The experiments I run aren’t the scientific…
How To Go Beyond Trends And Make The Future Knowable
Often I’ve heard people say ‘the future is unknowable’. While we can’t know the exact future that will happen, we can interpret ‘the shape of the future’ with varying levels…
4 steps to illustrating your company purpose statement, visually
One of the challenges faced for any organisation is how to convey their purpose statement. As leaders we may be asked at any time to communicate the purpose of our company…
3 tips for managing stressful interactions
In times of change and uncertainty, it’s easy to feel under pressure. During these times, you may find yourself having interactions with people in stressful circumstances, where this ‘stress’ is…
4 Stages of trend watching in organisations
Many of us in some way or another are responsible for strategy within our organisations. Whether you’re a CEO, a brand manager, a small business owner or an executive coach,…
Simplicity vs selection
Simplicity’ and ‘selection’ are often at odds with each other. If someone told you ‘choice is a luxury that makes things easier for customers’ intuitively we would agree, wouldn’t we? Many brands…
