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Future fitness: the five yes-or-no questions every leadership team needs to answer

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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. That sounds simple. It is not. Every organisation likes to describe itself as agile, innovative and ready for change. Most are not. They are busy, well-intentioned and professionally distracted. They scan trends, talk about AI, run workshops, produce strategy decks and […]

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Digital transformation #MindCandy: Digital twinning everywhere

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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Michelin has launched digital twin technology for sensor-free tyre monitoring When a tyre can be monitored without adding physical sensors, we are moving into a world where products become data models, assets

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#MindCandy: Age as an asset

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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. Experience is a cognitive advantage What looks like instinct is pattern recognition — thousands of variations of the same problems, stored and retrieved faster than any junior analyst can search for them. Experienced people spot risks earlier, decide with less data,

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Leadership team alignment workshop that works

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Most leadership teams are not misaligned because people are incompetent. They are misaligned because the business changed faster than the leadership conversation did. That is why a leadership team alignment workshop matters. Not as an offsite ritual. Not as a morale exercise. As a strategic reset. A way to surface hidden assumptions, expose conflicting priorities,

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The future of augmentation

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In the second class of primary school, I did a presentation on Operation Blue Book. UFOs. Since then, UFOs have always been on my radar. That brings you into multi-dimensions, parallel universes, alternate realities, time travel, the paranormal, etc. Our limited spectrum The question is always at which frequency or spectrum we are operating. That

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Business book insights workshop that shifts strategy

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Most leadership teams do not have an idea problem. They have a signal problem. Too much noise. Too many trends. Too many books, podcasts, frameworks, and expert opinions competing for attention. A business book insights workshop fixes that. It filters what matters, tests it against your reality, and turns external thinking into internal strategic movement.

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The old rules of marketing are dead

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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is the fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. A long time ago (2011), I read The Old Rules of Marketing Are Dead. Fifteen years later, the message is the same — only the executioner has changed. AI agents will

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What an executive sparring partner does

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The CEO had data, dashboards, a leadership team, and a board. What he did not have was a place to think out loud without the politics. Every option sounded reasonable. Every risk looked manageable until it was not. That is where an executive sparring partner earns their keep. Not as a coach who asks gentle

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What a thought leadership book service does

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Most CEOs do not need help writing more content. They need help sharpening what they know before the market, the board, or AI noise buries it. That is where a thought leadership book service earns its keep. Not as a vanity project. Not as a ghostwritten trophy. As a strategic tool. A serious book can

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Digital Transformation #MindCandy: Organisational wisdom

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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. #MindCandy is fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing Your people are using AI every day. The organisation is learning precisely nothing. Individuals prompt, get answers, move on. The insight dies

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