strategic sensing

Agility is not a trait. It is a habit you build by being wrong.

The lesson from STOP PREDICTING is not only that prediction is difficult. It is also that being wrong is not particularly dangerous. Staying wrong is. A recent Stanford Graduate School of Business article, “Leading Through Change: Why Leadership Agility Matters Now”, makes a very similar argument from the perspective of leadership. Experience can become a

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The architecture of uncertainty

Certainty in a world of uncertainty. As an infrastructure. That is from “The architecture of certainty: Rethinking infrastructure in an age of complexity“.  The gist of the article is this: Certainty as an asset In an increasingly unpredictable and dynamic world, certainty has become one of the most valuable organisational assets. Businesses are navigating economic

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 Allocating time to the future is an act of discipline

A new piece from Human Resources Director, “Leaders overestimate their readiness for change”, contains a statistic that should make every leadership team uncomfortable. 87% said that they were not prepared for change. We keep talking about disruption as if the problem is seeing it coming. It isn’t. The problem is what happens when it arrives. Readiness

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Nobody knows the future. That’s the point.

A  National Review article, “Nobody Knows the Future,” opens with an often-used example of failed technological prophecy: the Segway. Before its launch in 2001, some very smart people expected it to be enormous, including Steve Jobs. What makes the Segway story interesting isn’t that smart people were stupid. It is that expertise in a technology doesn’t

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Digital transformation #mindcandy: Would you give AI access to your bank account?

Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. Why Most Companies Still Aren’t Ready For Digital Transformation—Let Alone Agentic Transformation We are moving from AI that answers questions to AI that

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Digital transformation #Mindcandy: The end of software companies?

Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. The end of “buy before build”? For twenty years, the default answer to a business problem was often: find the software. AI is

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#Mindcandy: Nanobones, pig kidneys, skin-cell-sized sensors and China

Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. Stop predicting A bone that rebuilds itself from the inside. A pig kidney keeping a man alive long enough to

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#Mindcandy: Become a conscious disruptor

Use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing.  It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. Stop predicting Employees are suffering from change fatigue. Leaders need to balance stability with reinvention. The strongest leaders are

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