Strategy as a psychedelic concert
At the weekend I experienced the sheer joy of a Flaming Lips performance. With a few days of distance from the exuberance, and a newsletter deadline approaching, I’ve been drawing strategy lessons.
Should strategy be furtive?
What does a science fiction novel, the Tate, and a micro-community on TikTok all have in common?
Adapting a Growth Model for a Not-For-Profit
Many strategy workshops hold an uncomfortable tension: some participants seek airtime for tough BAU and in-flight projects, and others want to generate and discuss novel ideas.
Think 'grasshopper' for Transformational change
Organisational transformation is often described as moving from 'start' to 'end' through one complex, messy and challenging stage.
Apply strategy with an Accountability Matrix
Not Keanu's matrix. Geologists refer to the material in which something beautiful, meaningful or desirable is embedded as the matrix.
Shift your organisation’s cadence
Your workplace has rhythms, whether you control them, are controlled by them, or just live alongside them.
Should strategy be correct?
Harry Beck's 1933 map of London's Underground is wildly inaccurate - it bears little relation to the geography of London. It is, genuinely, a lie.
Strategic accelerants – get through the mud
In his last 5 Minute Strategic Mindset newsletter, Andrew Hollo suggests three ways in which speed needs to be manifest in any business, or organisation.