Adaptive Strategy
Naming the Camel in the Room
On inherited ambition, the pain of unlearning it, and what becomes possible when organizations - and people - start working with their actual nature.
Futures
Adaptive Strategy
The Tuesday Morning Problem of Foresight
Most organizations do not lack signals, they lack a pathway from signal to decision. This article explores why foresight often becomes theatre or fantasy, and why the real work is earlier relevance, decision readiness, and timing under pressure.
Adaptive Strategy
Growth Is Not a Strategy
Most strategies assume growth. Few examine how that assumption changes the way decisions are made.
Adaptive Strategy
Foresight, Time and the Problem of Timing.
We treat foresight as if it were about time and the yet-to-come. But real impact begins when we realise: foresight is about timing.
Strategy
When 5 Years Are Not Enough
Most companies trust the rhythm of five-year plans and annual budgets, but without governance of superposed futures, they risk pacing the same cage while calling it strategy.
Futures
On futures we mistake for change
When the present grows too heavy to move, organizations often reach for the same answer they always reach for, the promise of more control. The reflex is almost automatic. Prutures.
complexity
The Limits of Design: Why Emergence Can’t Be Engineered
We like to believe that if we build the right structures, policies, teams, strategies, or incentive systems, something good will emerge. We hold on to the hope that good intentions paired with solid design will stabilize the future. But if we’re honest, we often don’t know whether they will.
Futures
The Art of Deconstructing Futures
Helping my child understand quadrilaterals taught me this: real understanding—and real futures—come from breaking things down, questioning assumptions, and rebuilding with meaning and glue.
Interview
Simple Thinking in Conversation
In this interview with Sarah Biendarra, explore the approach of Simple Thinking—how it helps navigate complexity and shape future possibilities.
Experiencing
Why Futures matter to me
Futures thinking has always been part of who I am. For me, it’s about seeing beyond the immediate. This is my journey and its learnings.
Futures
The Futures Telescope
The Futures Telescope is a tool for uncovering the blind spots in our vision and the assumptions that guide us.
Adaptive
Of Bridges and Vessels
Don’t get me wrong, I understand the notion and see the beauty in all the “Build bridges, not walls” kind of metaphors. But when it comes to strategy and futures, I’m afraid a bridge isn’t the answer.