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how do you feel about taking risks?
After facing the future and feeling empowered to change yourself or your organization to design your ideal future, one of the next steps in my Foresight Leadership program is a risk assessment.…
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punching the 10000 hour myth in the jaw
You’ve heard it. We’ve all heard it. Countless business books and life books have touted the “10,000 hours to mastery” rule. I think Malcolm Gladwell started it all – or maybe it…
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execution matters, but so do ideas
You’ve probably heard a variation of this quote a thousand times: Ideas don’t matter. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Execution matters. This statement, like Schroedinger’s Cat being both dead and alive, is both…
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will words will break your bones?
Back in high school, I took a creative writing class in my Junior year because, at one point, I thought I was going to become a writer. That class was a total…
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stepping into the same river twice
Determining the correct decision in any specific situation requires the ability to look at both qualitative and quantitative data. However, all of this data comes from the past. For example, if you…
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i’m new here
Three simple words. These three simple words are incredibly powerful. The tone in which you say them means a lot as well. When we take on consulting engagements, there is usually a…
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is your ceo like elon musk?
I mentioned in a previous post that I had ordered a Cybertruck – mostly because its a very cool, futuristic design (something I’ve been waiting for from the auto industry for years).…
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brainstorm this: tell a story of things to come
In many of our ideation sessions, we have to start by contending with those who are stuck in “today”—those who will shoot down any suggested ideas by looking at it through the…
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remote is better than in-person. change my mind
Running an ideation session is hard. Running it remotely is even harder. But it can be done and in many cases lead you to even better ideas than you can get in…
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7 Tips For Dealing With The Coronavirus And Future Black Swans
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there on this pandemic. Much of it is designed, in my view, to throw people into a panic. In our practice, we have a…
