by admin | Nov 6, 2026 | Creative, Leadership
There is a myth in business that creativity flourishes when resources are plentiful. Give people enough time, budget, and freedom, and the ideas will follow. The evidence suggests it is more complicated than that. When Constraints Spark Something Unexpected In 2008,...
by admin | Nov 2, 2026 | Creative, Leadership
Drop ceiling, no windows, or windows that face a carpark. A whiteboard with someone else’s half-erased session still on it. Chairs arranged in rows or around a table so long that the people at the far end might as well be in a different meeting. The air is slightly...
by admin | Oct 27, 2026 | Creative, Leadership
The proposal that arrives in your inbox looking polished, well-structured, even confidently argued until you read past the third page and realise no one who prepared the proposal actually understands what they are proposing. The deck that was clearly assembled rather...
by admin | Oct 19, 2026 | Creative, Leadership
In the early 2000s, LEGO was in trouble. Video games were booming. Children were spending hours in digital worlds, building virtual landscapes, socialising online. The physical toy market was contracting. LEGO was losing money, closing factories, and facing a question...
by admin | Oct 13, 2026 | Creative, Leadership
Have you ever felt the kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with being overworked? The exhaustion of always knowing the answer, of being the one in the room who has seen it before, solved it before, signed off on it before. Of running so efficiently that there is...
