Is Your Thinking About the Future Making You Less Prepared?
Publication: Future thinking | Future-ready leadership | Leadership strategy | Strategic foresight | Systems Thinking
In volatile times, leaders often fall into one of two traps: they focus so heavily on today’s pressures that they stop preparing for tomorrow, or they become so consumed by what might go wrong that they struggle to act at all. Neither response builds future-readiness. What does is the ability to think rigorously about what […]
Are You Alert to Good Ideas?
Publication: Cognitive Overload | Cultivating Curiosity | Systems Thinking
Recently, I was listening to an interview with British author James Dover Grant, better known by his pen name, Lee Child. If you’re a fan of the Jack Reacher novels, you’ll know who I am writing about. He started his fictional writing career after his journalism job was made redundant. In that interview, he recounted an incident with […]
Are you alert to the change cane toads at work?
Publication: Change Impact Analysis | change management | Organisational Adaptation | Systems Thinking
It seemed like a good idea at the time. You’ve got a problem and identified a solution. Tested the solution, and now you’ve rolled it out. The team and you sit back and celebrate your success…only to find unexpected impacts derail the change. Dependencies and connections you hadn’t identified have risen to the surface, and […]