Peter Thiel once said, “Never ever hire an MBA; they will ruin your company.” Scott Cook, founder and leader of Intuit, was sure that, “When MBAs come to us, we have to fundamentally retrain them–nothing they learned will help them succeed at innovation.” Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, said…

Employee disengagement is one of the reasons why companies fail to achieve their growth aspirations. However, underneath it, lies a much greater problem: “Half of Millennials, 75% of Gen Zers Have Left a Job for Mental Health Reasons”. The youngsters in the workforce largely succumb to pressure from peers. A…

Digital Transformation has become a prevalent topic on the boardroom agenda, however, according to BT most CEOs aren’t that confident that their company will be able to profit from it. But there is another issue left untouched: digital can’t transform a business, only people can. According to the findings of…

Concerning the Responsive-state of the ROUNDMAP™ Cycle of Transformation, we’ll need to consider whether we are preparing for Change or Transformation. Let’s discuss the difference and how these two initiatives relate to robustness and resilience. What’s the difference between Change and Transformation? Change fixes the past. Transformation creates the future…

Following our previous post in which we introduced the Cycle of Transformation and the Cycle of Disruption, we like to propose the antifragile counterpart of the Master of Business Administration (MBA): the Master of Business Resilience (MBR). …

A few days ago I had the privilege to listen to the stories of two retired professionals as they looked back on their careers. Their stories, although worlds apart, made me realize that standardization, needed to deliver products and services efficiently and reliably, inhibits one’s improvisation skills and creativity needed…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of the book The Black Swan, claims: We only perceive about 20% of our field of vision, called our perceptual span. The same thing occurs when we listen. Our situational awareness is limited to what we perceive as relevant to what we believe matters. In…

Until yesterday, I was totally unaware of the existence of something called the Wheel of Dharma neither did I know anything of the Eightfold Path associated with this symbol. However, as soon as I became aware of it, the resemblance with the structure of ROUNDMAP™ was astounding. What is the Wheel of Dharma?

Margaret Heffernan is a former CEO of five businesses, author of five books in which she explores business and effective leadership, and a part-time lecturer at the University of Bath School of Management in England. …