Author: michael
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Taking creative control of the AI imaging
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Sketch-first, AI-second: how I used “visual assistance sketching” with Nana Banana to regain control in concept development The last few days I’ve been doing a small but telling concept development project for my wife’s creative studio in Copenhagen. We’ve talked for a while about adding a greenhouse in the courtyard…
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Homo Flexibilis
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On leadership, adaptability, and remembering what made us human There is a growing sense that something essential is under strain. Across organisations, families, institutions, and inner lives, familiar structures no longer hold in the way they once did. Decisions feel heavier. Certainty feels rarer. And many people who are capable,…
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Square Life Stages Framework
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What if we’ve been celebrating the wrong milestones all along? Instead of centring our lives around decade birthdays — the 30s, 40s, 50s — what if we began celebrating the ages that actually feel like turning points? Square Numbers and the Shape of a Lived Life As a curious innovator…
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Leadership for the Complex and Chaotic present (DIS presentation link)
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From Engineering Logic to Situational Leadership The presentation linked above is one I recently gave to hundreds of business leaders with strong engineering and operational backgrounds. The audience spanned senior managers, technical leaders, and decision-makers responsible for navigating complexity in large organizations. What stood out in the feedback was not…
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Design Thinking Strategy
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Design Thinking Strategy – A Framework for Organisations Ready to Transform Design Thinking has been through cycles. Ten years ago it surged with momentum—high expectations, colourful post-its, and promises of user-centric transformation. Then came the pushback: “It’s hard to scale.” “It takes too long.” “It doesn’t fit our governance.” Many…
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The Decompression Zone: Self-Leadership in Times of Creative Destruction
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These months, many industries are shifting at a speed we haven’t seen in decades. Entire disciplines are disappearing one place and other reappearing elsewhere. New roles, new skills, new technologies, new demands. For some, this brings opportunity. For many others, it brings layoffs, restructurings, or the unexpected end of long…
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Climbing the Corporate Design Ladder
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Introducing strategic design in the enterprise organisation can be done by paying attention to the design ladder At the outset of our design practice in my current company, we had no executive sponsor for design, nor did the company have a grand vision for introducing design thinking. As many other…
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PAK vs KAP
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A New Approach to Organizational Transformation PAK versus KAP — Rethinking How We Learn and Lead Change I once had the privilege of being taught and mentored by Jerry Sternin, a legendary ethnographer and pioneer in the co-development space. Jerry championed the idea of harnessing the creative power of users…