Focus – The invaluable currency

In a distracted world, isolation, focus, and deep work as proposed by Cal Newport, are an invaluable currency. The world operates from tweet to post, fast paced, highly distracted, volatile, uncalm. Increasingly, those who are … Read More

Walk out and look up to a vast, never-ending, crisp blue sky

There’s something incredibly liberating about walking out and looking up to a vast, never-ending, crisp blue sky.

Managers vs Leaders

Managers expect teams to solve recurring problems in boardrooms. Leaders create alternative boardrooms to inspire teams to solve tomorrow’s problems.

We don’t see, that we don’t see, what we don’t see.

We don’t see, that we don’t see, what we don’t see.

Define the end-point and reverse engineer it

In product development, most of us head off down a track and we see where we end up. Rather, define the end-point and reverse engineer it.

Develop the ability to view something from a different perspective

The ability to view something from a different perspective, through a different lens – that’s the greatest power in business.

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”

Socrates

A great business partnership is the single most powerful element

Ideas, businesses, money, they all come and go. But a great business partnership is the single most powerful element.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain an idea without accepting it."

Aristotle

Inbox Zero

The promised land. Good thinking requires decluttering and eliminating things which distract us.

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford

Usability vs User Experience

Usability: the saddle, the stirrups, the reigns. User Experience: the wind, the speed, the view, the feeling you get riding the horse.