Most strategy fails because it is treated as an event. That is not strategy. Strategy cannot be built through occasional inspiration. It has to become an operating rhythm — a repeated way of sensing, interpreting, deciding, experimenting and learning. That is why 100 days matters: long enough to learn something real, short enough to prevent […]
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I use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing, the assumptions they are protecting, and the moves they need to make before disruption becomes visible on the P&L. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. They built the world’s most powerful AI. They’re
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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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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. The next AI advantage will not come from access to AI That is already becoming a commodity.
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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,
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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 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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I am a fan of Elon, and I am a fan of Naval. That is why I picked up “The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success”. A journey through his quotes and interviews. I found it fascinating. Particularly his focus on making things. Manufacturing is underrated. AI has commoditised nearly everything else.
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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 t your leadership team in your organisation — or start the conversation yourself. Three hours of free power a day sounds good – but is Australia’s scheme fair? From July 1,
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You can’t predict the future. You can build the fitness to respond to it. MindCandy is the fuel for strategic conversation about what’s next. Future-proof is a lie Future-proof. Bulletproof. Recession-proof. AI-proof. All marketing. Nothing is proof against a future nobody can see. Dave O’Donovan of Aer Lingus put it well: don’t try to be
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I have always been obsessed with organisational design. I think organisational design eats culture . Culture is too slow. Form always follows function. And something larg is happening in the world of organisational design. Every organisation is quietly growing a second nervous system: a synthetic layer of software that does not simply wait to be
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