The question remains, “is the more impressive leader the person who pre-empts a possible iceberg coming and avoids potential impact or the leader who takes action after impact when the damage is done? I think Dee Hock, (who wrote a magnificent foreword for my book “Undisruptable”), understood the subtleties of such a question challenge when he said,Ā
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy with Micah Zenko
“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to […]
In many organisations the emerging bud often gets very little energy, protection, budget or runway, in fact, many budding attempts are stillborn and never see the springtime.
We welcome the author of āFrom Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovationā, Ismail Amla
The Exponential Era: Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve in an Era of Chaotic Changes and Disruptive Forces with David Espindola
āManagers who donāt bet the farm on their first idea, who leave room to try, […]
Diana Kander Curiosity Muscle
This Thursday Thought holds lessons for us in a business and personal context. To navigate change, we must grip our transient advantages loosely. Today, as we close out the Covid-19 pandemic under the threat of war, uncertainty is a certain ingredient of our life experience. We must be make peace with uncertainty and let go of control. The only control we can exercise is over our preparation, in doing so we prepare our response to unavoidable disorder and chaos.
“The world is divided into people who do things – and people who get the […]