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Disruption has come to save you

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Humans are beautiful. They can somehow balance on their hindlegs, brachiate, create music, make life-changing discoveries and cooperate at scale. After millions of years of neural conditioning, it is no wonder that we have become the dominant species on the planet. Brave men run in our family You are amazing because you come from a […]

What New Normal?

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There are certain phrases being bandied about. ‘post-Covid’, ‘new normal’ and ‘next normal’ come to mind. I do not think they are useful terms, but I do understand that human nature craves a return to what it is familiar with, even if it must settle for a variant. A different normal? New normal was a […]

The real future of work

Definitions of work typically assume that there is a worker involved. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, ‘work is defined as an activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.’  This definition first started to fray around 3.3 million years ago when the first stone tools were created. […]

Citizen upgrade

Citizen upgrade

Humans are being put to the test. A test that goes much deeper than how do we cope in a world where access to hand sanitiser and toilet paper is not guaranteed. In this post, we explore the role citizens can play in ensuring our societies pass with flying colours. Firstly, some scene setting:   […]

Why your vision is destroying your business

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The Harvard Business Review website has circa 13k references to ‘vision’. It also has around 13k of references to ‘strategy’. But of course the HBR has been around for a century and a lot has happened since its founding, including the seismic transition from the industrial to the digital / human / social etc epoch. […]

10 reasons why leadership development programmes fail

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The digital tsunami threatened to destroy business models and create new ones. And it did. However some leaders have side-stepped it through operating in markets that they essentially controlled or whose business models were so niche that that they were immune from macroeconomic forces. Some leaders are presiding over businesses on life support. It is […]

The super-resilient leader

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To understand what defines a super-resilient leader, we first need to understand what we mean by the term ‘leader’. Some definitions: Leader – the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country. Lead – causing a person (or animal) to go with one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, […]

Covid-19, disruption and humanity

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An uncomfortable truth Let’s face it, if you built a robot sensitive to dopamine, serotonin, cortisol and oxytocin, for all intents and purposes you have built a human. This does not fit with the biological definition of human life, but it does tell us a lot about human lifestyle. Each of us have the following […]

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