Business Outcomes not Products

CIOs and IT GMs often talk about cultural change and change management in general like it’s a “destination”… “we're doing a culture change project this year”. I reckon cultural change is better regarded as a consequence of laser focus on your business model, not a destination or a “project”.   In a recent conversation with…

Celebrating failure and its importance

Fuckup Nights (fuckupnights.com) is a global movement born in Mexico in 2012 to publicly share business failure stories. Hundreds of people attend each event to hear three to four entrepreneurs share their failures. Each speaker is given 7 minutes and is able to use 10 images. After each speaker, there’s a question/answer session, as well as…

High Performing Teams and George Orwell

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act". This quote has been attributed to George Orwell, the English novelist and opponent of totalitarianism. With everything from "fake news" to rampant leaks in politics, it seems we live in a time of universal deceit... maybe not exactly what George was referring…