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. […]
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Most leadership teams aren’t short on intelligence. They’re short on space to think. This article is about fixing that — in two hours, with no prep required. Long, long time ago……. A long time ago we invented Bookbuzz. A mechanism to merge leadership teams with the latest business thinking, with books as a platform for
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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 unread books in your office “library” are telling you something There is a bias running through contemporary
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In February 2023, I started publishing a daily scenario prompt. One signal. One question. Every day. Three and a half years later, the archive had taught me twelve lessons I did not expect. Most of what I predicted was wrong. That turned out to be the point. Here is what stuck. 1. No single signal
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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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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.
Business book insights workshop that shifts strategy Read More »
I am a big fan of Barry O’Reilly. His “Unlearn” is a classic. That’s why I picked up “Artificial Organizations: Build Better Judgment, Speed, and Results with Human and Machine Intelligence”. A must-read for leaders. Efficiency? According to McKinsey’s State of AI 20254, nearly 80% of organisations say efficiency is the primary objective of their
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Most keynote talks on innovation fail in the first five minutes. They entertain. They inspire. They produce a few LinkedIn posts. Then everyone goes back to business-as-usual on Monday. That is the real test of an innovation keynote speaker. Not applause. Not energy in the room. Not how many people say, “That was brilliant.” The
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I have been thinking: What if ancient wisdom is not just philosophy? What if it is a form of advanced technology? In 2021, I wrote The Power of the Mind. I have always been intrigued by the power of the mind. Books like The Celestine Prophecy, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far
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I wrote a book about AI and have come to the conclusion that natural intelligence (in all its forms) is infinitely smarter than AI. A combination of both, natural intelligence augmented by AI, would be a perfect combination. Hence, “You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition” by Laura Huang. Intuition Intuition is a
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