Orientation & Direction (Map)
Most organisations struggle not because they lack ambition, but because they cannot translate imagined futures into focused momentum. Backcasting does the opposite of traditional planning — it starts with the future and works backwards. Here is how to run it.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
The label genius is often misleading. We apply it to individuals — but when you look carefully at almost any significant creative achievement, the picture is more complicated.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
Why clarity matters in messy creative work. We don't need to know every turn, but without a clear destination, good people can spend enormous effort going in the wrong direction.
Idea to Value (Physics)
An extraordinary amount of work is started — and just as quietly abandoned. The problem is not a lack of effort. It is a failure to close the loop between investment and value.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Most workplace problems are solved too quickly, with the first plausible answer. The PO method — Problem + Object — deliberately disrupts that pattern. A practical guide to lateral thinking and creative problem-solving at work.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
I set out to post one small idea about creativity every day for a month. LinkedIn killed it on day six. Here are the thirty that survived — free to read.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
In most organisations, attention is drawn relentlessly toward problems. Appreciative Inquiry offers a different stance — not naïve optimism, but a deliberate practice of understanding where value already exists and asking how it might be amplified.
Communication (Wiring)
Business storytelling works when it is disciplined and grounded in evidence. When it is not, it becomes decoration. This essay — from someone who spent years in journalism before applying these skills to organisations — explains why stories move people when facts alone do not, and how to build one.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
I discovered the Cornell Note-Taking Method over a decade ago and promptly ignored it. It sounded dull and academic. Then I tried it properly. I have not really stopped since.
Communication (Wiring)
Some people communicate like vending machines — same input, same output, regardless of context. And then there are those who seem to have presence. The difference is adaptability. Here is how to develop it.
Idea to Value (Physics)
Last week my wife and I went out for a meal at our local pub. It was our anniversary. The experience delivered the opposite of everything we were paying for — not through malice, but through a series of cost decisions made without reference to purpose. Layer tag: The physics
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Before anyone puts pen to paper, the same things happen every time. Laughter. Nervous smiles. A low hum of anxiety. Then the disclaimers arrive. The drawing exercise is simple. What it reveals about fear and the creative process is not.