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Bridging the agility gap in large enterprises

While many organisations have made great strides in agility, many departments are still lagging, causing collaboration challenges and an awkward mix of waterfall and agile at different stages of a project’s lifecycle.
  • Transformation,
  • training
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Empathy is complicated

Today, I learned that there are two types of empathy, cognitive empathy and emotional empathy. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand someone's situation from their point of view, while emotional empathy is the ability to feel what someone else is feeling.
  • Transformation
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Fear of Finding Out (FOFO)

A psychological mindset, especially common in first-time startup entrepreneurs, that can be highly damaging to the success of the business or product.
  • Transformation,
  • strategy
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How DNA impacts change management

Change is often seen as a battle between what we know and what we need to become. But what if the key to successful transformation lies not in forcing people to change but in helping them redirect their natural tendencies to support transformation?
  • strategy,
  • transformation
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Mistakes vs non-competence

In the evolving landscape of the modern business environment, where we've learned to be more accepting of the occasional misstep, it becomes imperative to distinguish between errors and a lack of skill, or what I prefer to call non-competence.
  • Transformation
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Planning vs impulse

Some personalities like to plan ahead, while others take action in seconds with minimal thought. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses, and the differences are as impactful today as they were centuries ago.
  • Transformation,
  • strategy
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Short-term vs long-term dichotomy

A dichotomy of life is that if something is easy in the short term, it will likely be challenging in the long term. Conversely, if it's difficult in the short term, it often becomes easier in the long term. This principle is a testament to the enduring human struggle between immediate gratification and long-term success. Psychologically, this struggle is entrenched in our evolutionary biology. We are wired for survival, which often means opting for the path of least resistance to conserve energy and resources.
  • Transformation
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Striking a balance between policy and common sense

In our complex, fast-paced world, we often seek refuge in the certainty of rules and policies. They are the concrete directions that guide our actions, promising a sense of order and predictability. However, sometimes this adherence to policy is taken to extremes, in what seems to be the death of common sense. At first glance, this statement may appear overly harsh, even anarchic. However, it prompts one to consider the balance between rigid policy adherence and the exercise of individual judgement.
  • Transformation
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What is a consultant?

I wrote this for my last book Serverless Beyond the Buzzword 2nd edition (before ChatGPT was churning out poems). Quite happy with it, so I am including it here in my blog for posterity.
  • transformation,
  • strategy
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Whitepaper: Uncertainty matrices for digital transformation

In this whitepaper I look at the uncertainty matrices and how they might effectively be applied to digital transformation. Many examples and ideas are included to support the application of the framework to your digital transformation initiative.
  • strategy,
  • transformation,
  • whitepaper
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