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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills – Chinese proverb I’ve more normally heard the proverb above as ‘In a hurricane, build windmills’. For me, I use [...]

Alex Osterwalder says that the biggest problem trying to run a startup like it’s an established company is that the business model hasn’t been discovered. He (and Steve Blank before him) suggest [...]

In this short video of Steve Jobs, he sheds some light on a couple of areas that made Apple great. The first is that they focused on organizing around ideas and not hierarchies. They aligned [...]

I have an unspoken agreement with several well-known brands across a few different product segments; if they build it, I’ll buy it. We all have our favorite products and brand loyalty isn’t an [...]

Dream big. Work hard. Doing one without the other probably won’t work well. Dreaming without hard work will likely lead to missed opportunities and frustration. Working hard without having a [...]

Music forms an integral part of the story, pace and emotion of a film. Have you ever tried to watch one with the sound off? They just don’t have the same effect. It’s the music that often really [...]

Mark Twain once said, “Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Unfortunately, when you’re put on the spot to conjure up a good example for a given situation [...]

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo Da Vinci Leading change can be a tough job. Be it a change within your own team or a global enterprise change that affects [...]

It’s entirely accurate to say that we measure performance by what we do simply because those actions produce results, sometimes good and sometimes bad. There is another side to performance – the [...]

“If everything has to work in 2-3 years then that limits what you can do. If you give yourself the breathing room to say ‘I’m ok to take 7 years’ then all of a sudden you have way more [...]