Book review

I had the pleasure of speaking about innovation at CORP2IN in Zagreb on 9 November. This is what I was talking about: INNOVATION TRENDS There are some trends such as increasing internal clock speed, application of anthropology, the use serendipity, focus on execution and the creation of a BIG tolerance for mistakes. You need a failure fund. […]

Climate change is a hot topic I was at a workshop in RTE about BAFTA’s Albert, a system that measures the carbon impact of TV and film productions. Really interesting, thoroughly enjoyable. It also scared the daylights out of me. And I can do doom and gloom like the best of us. We are running

SmallbusinessCan Content marketing has been on our mind for a while now. Ten years ago we created SmallbusinessCan. Co-created with and funded by Ulster Bank. The rationale was to embrace social media, design a platform to engage with small business and create a  distribution, communication and publishing channel for Ulster Bank. The only focus was on

Breaking bad habits follows on from Freek Vermeulen’s “Business exposed”. A book with an interesting take on popular management theories and practices. Most of them do not work. Management fads spread like wildfire or like a virus but are not based on any merits. Simplicity Sells Think about it. It makes sense. Simplicity sells and

The six questions to ask are: Question 1 What is your organisation’s big transformative purpose? First asked in “Exponential organisations” and is becoming a trend.  Question 2 How antifragile are you as an organisation? Based on Taleb’s book with the same title, but starting to get traction. You need to immunise your organisation to change

Below are 215 questions that we distilled from the business books that we have covered with our clients over the last ten years. They are random, and some might not be relevant. However, they will make you think. They might give you a headache too. Here it goes: Strategy 1. How random are you? 2.

The books to read Yep, it is that time of year again. The books to read for Xmas. With the Bookbuzz sessions, we cover a lot of books every year. Below are the ones that stand out, with a link to the summaries. The code of the extraordinary mind The book that I still recommend

My next book is going to be about the power of the mind. Everything from mind techniques, neuroscience, habits, flow and of course future trends. Placebo effect For example, if I were a Pharma company, I would seriously study placebo effects. It is very powerful. You are what you think. Some theories suggest you can

Fast failure  I always hated the notion of “fail fast” in the context of startups. The whole purpose of starting a business is not to fail. I understand the sentiment. You need to fail to learn. We work with a lot of innovation directors, and the standard question is the size of the failure fund.

I had the pleasure of speaking at The Green Alley Awards in Berlin as patron and judge about climate change and about going circular. Here is my talk: Entrepreneurs get it I am the entrepreneur in residence for Sustainable Nation where I have the pleasure to work with lots of very interesting eco-entrepreneurs. The startups