Writing
Notes on innovation as a habit, and on staying human while the machines get good.
Evolution enablement
The capacity to change what you do without losing who you are
The innovation athlete
Why your organization needs a training program, not another strategy deck
When constraints become superpowers
TSMC built a company on what it could not do. Intel let what it did best become the problem.
Why some companies last: the ENDURE approach
Your biggest limitation may be your greatest advantage, if you know how to train into it.
The organizational context window
How to keep the magic of thirty people and a bundt cake when the organization has three thousand.
The ladder of AI inference
A prompt is a ladder of inference climbed in a hurry. Argyris and Tetlock show how to climb back down.
When everyone can make everything, your fingerprints matter most
The easier it gets to make things, the more it matters how you make them yours.
Learning to see
I wrote about human judgment in an AI world, then discovered I could not hold my own attention for ten minutes. Notes from the attempt.
The human touch
The Numa Numa guy is still remembered twenty years on. The ballerina cappuccino will be gone by Friday.
Why everyone loves Nintendo (but hates big tech)
Big tech got very good at innovation and people started to dislike it. Nintendo stayed a toy company, and everyone still loves it.
The business designers who see around corners
The most valuable role of the next decade is not drawing better diagrams. It is reading the room while the machines read the data.
The big bet paradox
Spoiler alert: it is not your strategy that is broken. It is your organization.
Managing your innovation clock speed
What to do when your ambition runs faster than the world you are trying to change.
Winking at machines: teaching AI to read between the corporate lies
AI can read the annual report. It cannot see the boardroom wink.
Knowledge flow patterns: navigating the hidden currents of organizational change
Knowledge is not something to own. It moves, and the joints where it changes hands decide whether ideas live or die.
The Narcissus curse: why your innovation efforts keep falling short
Organizations fall in love with their own reflection. The cure is learning from the outside, on purpose.