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. Send this to your leadership team in your organisation — or start the conversation yourself. Sustaining a Shared Reality: How Past Technology Waves Have Impacted Strategy Strategy is a creative, judgment-based process […]
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The CEO as Chief Intelligence Architect Everyone is asking how to bolt AI onto the business. Fewer leaders ask the prior question: how does intelligence actually move through this organisation? That question belongs to the CEO. Because the real risk of the AI era is not that machines become intelligent. It is that organisations become
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A former colleague posts about a science-fiction novel. I decide to reread it. While I was drinking wine on the beach, a cybrid appears: a synthetic organism carrying the personality of the poet John Keats. I ask ChatGPT about Keats. A few minutes later, I am reading about negative capability, Keats’s idea that wisdom comes
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We keep on forgetting. Data is powerful. AI is powerful. Automation is powerful. But the last mile is still human. The last mile is the conversation with the customer who does not fit the segment. The employee whose situation is not covered by policy. The supplier who is under pressure but afraid to say it.
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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. Send this to the most curious person in your organisation — or start the conversation. The future: slow down or go faster A few years ago, I wrote a book about books
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Most leaders think of their business model as an economic structure — how value gets created, captured, and delivered. It is that. But it is also something they rarely say out loud: a moral structure. And the future is about to make that much harder to ignore. Morality is the next competitive advantage Responsibility used
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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. Forward this to your leadership team — or start the conversation. Nature is an innovation database Jumping spiders have inspired an ultra-efficient 3D camera. Armadillos have inspired protective technology for soft machines.
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The future rarely arrives as one thing. That is where many leadership teams are still fooling themselves. They ask for the AI strategy, the climate strategy, the cyber strategy, the talent strategy, the data strategy, the innovation strategy. Nice clean boxes. Easy to allocate. Easy to turn into board slides. Easy to hide behind. The
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Innovation has a PR problem. We’ve wrapped it in so much mythology — the garage startup, the eureka moment, the visionary founder — that we’ve lost sight of where most real innovation actually comes from. Not inspiration. Not ambition. Not even competition. Necessity. Ukraine is the proof. In spring 2026, Ukraine is not just surviving
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the #skillnetirelenand conference this week. “Leaning Into Disruption for Future Innovation” as the topic. I was hugely impressed. Best of breed I was there when Skillnet was borne in 1999. Twenty five years later we have a best of breed training programme (number 1 in the world) of
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