The feeling of impending doom is all too familiar. You’ve been asked to submit a Business Case for the initiative you’re leading. It’s asking for future benefits 5 and 10 years in the future. …

Tape a Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas on a wall, grab a large stack of post-it notes and pile of sharpies, invite all the stakeholders. That’s it! You’re ready to hold the first business modelling session for the product you’ve been assigned to help resurrect. You’ve done this before…

I’m currently working with a 150 year old multinational banking client with 45,000 employees. They’re big, make a ton of money ($1.4B in earnings last quarter) and they’re very well established. I’m there to help them create more Products that people use. Their track record, like most large and established…

“The king is dead. Long live the king.” was coined at the death of Charles VI of France. He started his reign with the nickname The Beloved and ended it with the moniker The Mad due to his frequent bouts of insanity. When Charles VI’s coffin descended into the vault…

Our brains love dopamine. We get a hit of adrenaline and dopamine when we’re “right”. This addiction to being right works well in our lightning fast world where decisions are expected to have been made 2 weeks ago. We quickly get to “right”, get our hit of adrenaline and dopamine…

I attended the Intrapreneurship Conference (IC) for the first time this week. It was held in my home town of Toronto, Canada. This is about the electricity it just created in my life. I’m sure many of you have been to conferences before. For some, they are an obligation. A…