Category: Transformational Leadership
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Permission to Play
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UX designers are on a crossroad now due to the AI automation taking place in the Product Design and Product Development World
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Demolition of Pre concieved ideas
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Roses and Sushi — A Tale There is a particular kind of stubbornness that lives inside organisations. It doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t show up in the risk register or get flagged in the retrospective. It wears the face of experience, speaks in the language of trust, and calls itself…
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How Wicked Problems may be the breakthrough for your transformation
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Why wicked problems are not an obstacle to change — they are the precondition for it. Most organizational transformations fail before they begin. Not because the methodology is wrong. Not because the people lack capability. Not because leadership is unsupportive. They fail because the problem was chosen for convenience rather…
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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…