There’s a balance to be struck by all of us between working on the thing that’s in front of us, and building the foundations for what we need to work on next.  When you’re ‘running to keep up’ that foundational work can feel like a luxury.  But oh my goodness there’s nothing like a pandemic… Continue reading The Innovation Blog: Using your wing mirrors

Perhaps it’s not in vogue to write about the difficult stuff.    But I’m always wrestling with work which, no matter how long I’ve been doing it, is still hard.  It’s emotional energy, there are no short-cuts.  It is real though, and there are good reasons why I’m doing it.    So I’m writing about… Continue reading Working on the Difficult Stuff: March Practice Notes

I’ve been teaching more foresight recently, and noticing how easy it is to get out of practice in using our imagination.  Being able to describe a different future from now is critical in our practice of change.  But in our efforts to be productive and use robust data in our work, I think we’ve got… Continue reading Your imagination: why it needs practice to fire it up, and three ways to do it