They say it’s not what you know but who you know that counts. Neither idea could be further from the truth … depending on what you hope to achieve. What you know might get you where you want to go … all else being equal. Who you know might get you there faster … if …
What we do is important but how we do it matters more. A start-up once engaged me to get its form, functions and governance frameworks designed and running smoothly. Part of the process involved creating a strategic plan to which the Board could hold itself and management accountable. Agreeing the vision, mission, goals, targets, budgets, …
A strategy is worthless if it doesn’t help us realise the vision it was designed to unleash. In a world of superficial thinking, short attention spans and instant gratification, words should be backed by relatively fast results if we want to keep people engaged and supportive. A strategy, in this sense, is the down payment …
I’ve worked in the private sector as a journalist, consultant, small business owner, editor, and intern with a global venture capital firm. I’ve walked the halls of academia as a student, research associate, teaching assistant, and adjunct professor. I’ve spent time in the public sector as a Foreign Service officer and diplomat. As the founding …
If a policy represents intention, a strategy is the roadmap that helps make that intention a reality. Most everyone is familiar with the saying, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Even with the best will in the world, policies are worthless without clear plans that give them life, that move them from …
Good polices keep people focussed, providing the discipline and direction they need to succeed. If anyone were to ask what I think is one of the grand questions confronting us in our time, aside from getting the right leadership and getting leadership right, I would say it’s how to make the idea and importance of …
Digital thinking, to me, is the ability to take what is complex and make it simple. Once we simplify things, it’s easier to find pathways to get us the outcomes we desire. But digital thinking isn’t without its challenges. It isn’t enough to plan for, purchase and deploy smart tech and call it digital transformation. …
These Reflections represent ideas I believe are relevant to small players in a world hostile to those who don’t have economic power, military might, or friends in high places. Yet Reflections are also images in a mirror. Brings to mind a masterful political speech given by the Father of Barbadian Independence the Rt. Excellent Errol Walton Barrow back in …
In the coming months, I’ll write, record, share short thoughts and explore issues, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends, but always with the goal of encouraging critical thinking and, hopefully, inspiring conscious social action on issues affecting small players at the intersection of technology, culture and ethical practice. Years ago when I was applying to do …
People who study these matters say there’s an almost universal pattern to thinking and feeling, perhaps even to behaviour, unique to particular periods of historical time. Some call it the Zeitgeist, a German word meaning the ‘spirit of the times’. Those living in these moments can’t always recognise the Zeitgeist or make sense of what …
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