Thinking in Three Dimensions

Creativity isn’t just lateral

The ugly truth about collaboration

Five ways that creating things in groups is not at all pleasant

Working in collaboration seems all the rage these days. But, if you want a nice life, make sure you avoid at all costs — it is unpleasant…

Four leadership lessons from football manager Nigel Adkins

Seven Themes From Seventeen

What a year. Here are seven themes that have come up for me personally through 2017 that feel like they might…

Four ways to be the leader 2017 demands

You don’t need me to tell you that we live in turbulent times: politics, technologies, industries, organisations have all moved at pace through 2016. There will be plenty of articles analysing 2016, diagnosing why things turned out the way they did and…

Complex problem solving: five don’ts

Our lives are full of complex challenges. A complex problem is one where it’s not simply a case of predictable cause-and-effect. In complexity, the different parts of the system effect each other in ways you can’t perfectly model or predict. Not everything…

What are you weaving? Collaborative problem-solving doesn’t move in straight lines

An idea is not as useful as a commitment

Or why you don’t need to be full of ideas

“We need new ideas” is a common rallying cry. However despite the hype, ideas aren’t primary. If you want to get going with new things, knowing what you are…

‘Meaningful Work’ isn’t lofty, it’s local

Making Meaning Work in Organisations

The zeitgeist knows that meaning matters. Organisations and leaders are increasingly investing time and energy in articulating their identity in a way that genuinely…