Failing to get traction for new ways of working or cultural changes you want your organisation to adopt? That’ll be corporate inertia....

How do you feel about uncertainty? Let’s have an honest conversation… Uncertainty means there are many possible future states and...

How Do I Empower Others Without Losing All of My Own? During recent coaching sessions with executives involved in leading organisational...

Who's helping you help your organisation through its transformation? Anyone who has kids will know that, especially in those early days...

Mutually exclusive or interdependent? How can we lead at pace and still be inclusive? This is the question that was asked by a Digital...

Are you responsible for investing (money and/or people) in innovation? Whether you’re responsible for the continuous improvement of...

When Corporate Innovators Are Their Own Worst Enemy. How impactful is your innovation lab? A number of years ago, when I started as Head...

Are organisational transitions so different to personal transitions? Digital Transformation is one of the most over-used and least...

How to Build Innovation Capability Inside your Organisation. How much money has your organisation spent over the last year on R&D? How...

Allowing new possibilities to emerge Back in 2017, I was responsible for a government incubator that pulled together one of the most...

The Mission Model Canvas is the much lesser known sibling of Strategyzer’s Business Model Canvas and was created a number of years ago...

In an increasingly uncertain and interconnected world, strategy is more important than ever. But the concept of strategy as a plan is...

A complaint I hear frequently from managers is that they haven’t got enough money or enough people to do the work that needs to be done....

“You got this,” someone says to you. “I really don’t.” you think silently to yourself. During the course of my career, I've been a part...

My recent blog post, The 7 Types of ‘Not Actually Strategy’ Strategy, makes the point that in most organisations strategy is done poorly,...

In Alice in Wonderland, a disoriented Alice comes across the mysterious Cheshire Cat: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go...

As former Head of Innovation at two government agencies, over the last 6 years I’ve met, chatted and shared stories with other Heads of...

Six years ago, someone I knew well approached me about an innovation role. My response: “Hmm, I don’t know about that. I mean, I can’t...

During a recent workshop on Cultural Intelligence (CQ - defined as the ability to relate and work effectively with people from different...

A while ago, I had an ‘Ah-ha!’ moment after reading Nick Wignall’s article: 4 Things Emotionally Intelligence People Don’t Do. I’d always...