I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Today’s scenario prompt: collective leadership
I talk a lot about the importance of clock speed. Your speed of decision making should be quicker than the speed of the changes in your environment. That is the end of command and control. The beginning of guiding principles, commander intent, transparency and autonomy. What is your organisation’s clock speed?
The CEO question
If your organisation had to operate at twice its current clock speed next quarter, what would need to change immediately?
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Nanorobots based on reconfigurable DNA origami arrays can work autonomously
Teams have started experimenting with origami structures that are comprised of folded strands of DNA and that could enable the development of new nano-scale systems for medical applications.
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-nanorobots-based-reconfigurable-dna-origami.html
When AI Can Do Your Job, Who Else Are You?
Your rare skill just became common. Here’s what that makes possible.
https://every.to/source-code/when-ai-can-do-your-job-who-else-are-you
Customers Expect Empathy. Here’s How to Deliver It.
A global survey of nearly 12,000 consumers across 11 countries found that empathy—customers’ sense that a company understands and responds to their emotional state—matters more to purchasing decisions than reviews or recommendations.
https://hbr.org/2025/11/customers-expect-empathy-heres-how-to-deliver-it
We can now track individual Monarch butterflies. It’s a revelation
The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200.
How to Send a Message to Future Civilizations
When written knowledge is more ephemeral than ever, how can we pass on what’s important?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-send-a-message-to-future-civilizations/
The future of immersive experiences will be built in waves (…and we are only in the first one)
True experiential intelligence will unfold in waves. Each wave will build on the last. And if we want to design the future rather than react to it, we must understand the structure forming beneath our feet.
Startup Zap Energy Just Set a Fusion Power Record With Its Latest Reactor
The company has achieved plasma pressures of 1.6 gigapascals—roughly 10,000 times atmospheric pressure at sea level—in a machine only 12 feet long.
Reprogrammed poplar trees can make key industrial chemical for biodegradable plastics
Poplar trees, which are already useful as a bioenergy crop, can be reprogrammed at the genetic level to act as living factories for producing high-value materials.
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-reprogrammed-poplar-trees-key-industrial.html
Great Leaders Empower Strategic Decision-Making Across the Organization
From hero to architect: clarifying intent, codifying principles, and building decision systems others can use without you.
https://hbr.org/2025/11/great-leaders-empower-strategic-decision-making-across-the-organization
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