Recently we started exploring mental sandboxing. The question we asked is if you have a failure fund (nobody does) and how to create space to experiment mentally (without having to spent a fortune). June’s Mindcandy 2026 archive shows exactly why it is needed. The summary June’s Mindcandy archive was not a set of separate posts.
June 2026: What the signals said Read More »
Every innovation director tells me the same thing. “We experiment all the time.” “We fail fast.”We test and learn.” So I ask one question: what is your failure fund? How much money are you actually allowed to lose this year, on purpose, while being wrong? The room usually goes quiet. Because there isn’t one. Real
Here is a thought experiment that should worry every board. Take your P&L. Now add the true cost of the water you drew down, the soil you degraded, the emissions you released, the pollution someone else will eventually clean up, and the ecosystems you quietly consumed. Not a token carbon line. The full bill. For
If you priced nature properly, almost every company would be bankrupt Read More »
Every innovation director tells me the same thing. We experiment all the time. We fail fast. So I ask one question: What’s your failure fund? How much are you actually allowed to lose this year, on purpose, being wrong? The room goes quiet. Because there isn’t one. Real experiments cost real money and real people,
Mental sandboxing: The cheapest experiment you’ll ever run Read More »
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
#Mindcandy: strategy is shared reality Read More »
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
Beyond AI: organisational wisdom Read More »
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.
The last mile is human Read More »
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
Digital transformation #mindcandy: The Treebeard problem Read More »
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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