When a few years ago I was at an international conference of about 150 public health professionals, one of the…

We live in the age obsessed with leadership. Everyone (clearly it’s in an overgeneralisation, but you get my point) wants…

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life.” – Steve Jobs Ever since the news of the coronavirus emerged, we…

Mintzberg famously coined an expression ‘emergent strategy’ to make a point that strategy was not all made up of what…

Reading Frankfurt’s On Bullshit triggered a barrage of memories and thoughts for me. To paraphrase Frankfurt, bullshit is so pervasive…

The view of strategy as an intended plan is prevalent. But what drives us to develop strategies? It seems to…

The three antidotes to a life of thoughtlessness seem to be being curious, creative and thinking critically. Yet much of what…

Developing strategies sometimes has an interesting quality of not really being about developing a clarity of action as action of…

One of my favourite board games is Azul. It is simple enough that a 7 year old can play and…

It is striking how our rhetoric and reality – or aspirational and actual – can be so different. I was…

Evidence based practice and policy sounds very cool. It instills a sense of… what’s the word? When you feel something…

In human history, people always planned, plotted and developed ploys to survive, win and take advantage of their opponents or…

It’s interesting to look back at things I was learning in my MBA and consider its relevance to the world…

One of my first impressions of life in the UK during my very first visit was that it was fast-paced.…

Whilst I was a Henley Business School we talked a lot about values in workshops and in coaching sessions I…

These days everyone seems to be in the business of revolutionising businesses. One marketing statement after another claim to revolutionise…

What is my understanding of failure? Perhaps not much different to a common view held by many people. Yet I…

What does it mean to line manage someone? Is it to control and manipulate or develop and enable people you…

Over the years my son accumulated dozens of Lego packs that let him construct different things (cars, planes, boats, etc).…

I like strategy board games. Part of what I enjoy about them is working out how they work and how…