Reflection & Insights
Welcome to where personal reflection meets practical insight. Here, we delve into how things show up in the world, examining the subtle forces and overt challenges that mould and shape the impression we leave in people’s minds. I also share my more general musings on strategic thinking and, occasionally, life.
My writing aims to marry critical thinking with a dose of observational English wit. My goal is to bring you value in the form of new perspectives that might inspire, clarify, or motivate change so that we all become that little bit better every day.
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Complexity is a killer
We operate with this bias that complexity makes us look more intelligent and inherently makes things more valuable. I can charge more for something that others don't understand, and complexity is needed for complex problems – right?
Death by PowerPoint
The Columbia disaster was a tragedy that marked the beginning of the end of the Space Shuttle program and the world's only reusable spaceship. And one PowerPoint slide might, just might, have changed that.
If you're not flying the plane, then who is?
As a leadership team, do you know the job that only you can do, what you should be focused on above and before everything else? Do you know where to look to see if you are making progress or heading off course?
A presentation without a problem to solve, is a presentation without a purpose.
The world doesn’t need any more presentations, and it certainly doesn’t need any more pointless ones.
Action plans are rubbish
I think we all know this; why? Because we have all created a plan after a workshop, planning session or something a little fancier like a retreat, where nothing has happened. Post-it notes get turned into a long list of steps that rarely appear after the first meeting.
