Most leadership teams are not short on intelligence. They are short on protected space to think. Executive meetings are consumed by delivery, targets, people issues and whatever caught fire that week. The urgent crowds out the strategic. Mental Sandboxing is a two-hour strategic rehearsal for leadership teams. No preparation. No generic workshop theatre. No long […]
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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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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
Does your team have a failure fund? 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,
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