3 Fundamentals for Innovating (& Making Them Work For You)

Solid Foundations for Innovators If you want to build the solid foundations to be truly innovative, three main fundamentals are required, in my opinion. And they all need to be present, at the same time, and with the same force, if you want to be successfully creative. By intertwining these three fundementals seamlessly, you can […]

Moving House Even More of a Nightmare Than Before!

My Experience of Relocating During the Pandemic House moving is stressful at the best of times, but try moving during a pandemic, and you will discover it is trebly challenging. Throughout my recent move, wholly unnecessary problems were caused by larger organisations despite my meticulous planning.  Here is my (hopefully constructive) rant…  The Misery of […]

Putting Strategic Thinking To Work

Most business goes through a planning phase in its yearly cycle and usually that plan is revisited at least monthly. However, that planning can get a bit formulaic and becomes almost a ritual rather than an innovative exercise. If you can effectively harness the strategic thinkers in your leadership and within the organisation then monthly […]

How To Improve Strategic Thinking Skills In Leadership?

Strategic thinking skills, in an ideal world would be something developed at all levels of an organisation. However, realistically speaking, strategically smart workers would not be much use if their managers and bosses are not strategic! So an organisation needs to lead by example and develop strategic thinking skills in their management, or recruit strategic […]

Headless Chicken Vs Strategic Thinking

What does strategic thinking mean? Strategic is a term that has become extremely popular in this century- just look at the graph below which shows its use in literature over the decades             Strategic means relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of […]