When Faisal Hoque published Adapt Or Die: Your Business’s Only Options In An Evolving Economy in 2014, he laid out a timeless foundation for enterprise survival: resilience, innovation, agility, adaptability. At the time I was inspired to pen an article (which I’ve now archived). A decade later, those principles that I highlighted remain, but survival … Read more
In 2007, David Snowden and Mary Boone published a groundbreaking article in Harvard Business Review titled “A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making.” It introduced the Cynefin framework to a wider audience—offering a way to categorise different types of problems and match them with the right decision-making approach. It was a timely gift. The world was … Read more
“From fear to flow: Rethinking the system that governs your speed” In my last post, I wrote about how fear of Agile, especially in a world shaped by AI and accelerating complexity, doesn’t protect the organization. It quietly makes it obsolete. But let’s assume you’re beyond that. You’re not stuck in fear, you’re asking deeper … Read more
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” In leadership circles, there’s often an unspoken belief:That resisting Agile, avoiding decentralisation, and clinging to control somehow keeps the business safe. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:That fear is costing you your future.…And in a world being … Read more
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” The future of work isn’t a distant horizon. It’s already here—just unevenly distributed. We’re no longer facing isolated shifts. We’re in the midst of a systemic transformation: If the last decade was about digital transformation, the … Read more
I found an insightful and eye-opening book on the O’Reilly learning platform, “The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders”. The book takes readers on a transformative journey into a world where traditional industry boundaries dissolve, making way for dynamic networks of partnerships and collaborations. As ecosystems reshape the … Read more