Some mornings, I wake up and shake my head at the news headlines. Not just about the politics and the horrific results of climate change, but about the never-ending stream of new tech news. With an estimated 100 million startups in activity every year around the world...
Jane, founder and president of a six-year-old startup, looked out her office window as the bustling people passed by, all frowning with their heads furrowed in their smartphone and ears plugged in wirelessly. “How am I going to get the new launch message out to the...
Authors: Minter Dial & Caleb Storkey Review by: Perry Timms (published in HR Director) NOMINATED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018 Disruption is an oft-used term for that fact that we can rent out someone’s spare room online or order a restaurant’s food to take...
Do you recall the days of the paper address book? Writing in and rubbing out (if you were smart enough to use a pencil) names, addresses and phone numbers. For some of my contacts, the paper would crumble under the number of changes I had to make.As I have led a...
What’s causing the most disruption of your brand? Some will point to social media, the mobile phone or other technologies. But it’s not the technologies themselves that are disrupting brands, it’s how they are being used. Moreover, when you look at...
I bet it’s frustrating working in a large organisation and to keep hearing about “test & learn” or “fail fast” or “agile management” when management behaviour contradicts the words. If recent history is any indicator of...