I help organisations increase their value by making them future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that programme. Find out more here.
Scenario prompt 8 September 2025
The scenario prompt for today is NOT turning sperm into microbots (think about it).
It is organisational structure. In a fast changing world culture is too slow. Organisational design eats culture. How do you force culture? Take a sledgehammer to culture and change your organisation. Look at your internal clockspeed and apply guiding principles. The classic to read is “Reinventing organisations”.
The other prompts are 25 books on AI, CERN, safety, superwood, innovation ecosystems, turning sperm into microbots and nuclear batteries,
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You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Lessons from CERN: how to innovate across centuries
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/cern-innovation
David Widegren, engineering chief at Europe’s leading particle-physics research institute, is tasked with building infrastructure for future generations with equipment that doesn’t yet exist
Disruption Doesn’t Drive Innovation—Safety Does
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/disruption-doesnt-drive-innovation-safety-does/
Genuinely visionary leaders know that disruption and safety go hand in hand. The safer you make your organization, the more you empower your people to think boldly, take risks, and explore new territory.
Reengineering wood to challenge steel and concrete
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/engineered-wood-steel-concrete
Superwood…..
Ecosystem-Driven Innovation: The New Frontier for Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Investor Returns
In an era defined by rapid technological change and global interconnectedness, the most successful technology firms are no longer those that rely solely on proprietary breakthrough
Future of fertility? Sperm turned into trackable microrobots for drug delivery
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/sperm-microrobots-drug-delivery
Human sperm are getting a high-tech upgrade
NASA Is Testing a Nuclear Battery That Could Last 433 Years
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65964293/nuclear-battery-433-years/
Spacecraft have used a plutonium isotope to stay afloat for decades, but another isotope could last even longer.
Why Are We Organized Like This?
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-376-why-are-we-organized-like
9 patterns. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/organisational-design-will-eat-culture/
