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The Trend-Spotting Blind Spot: When Missing a Key Trend Stifles your Growth
What you don’t see can hurt you. Many once-dominant companies failed, not because of lack of resources or execution, but because they misread or ignored key trends.
In the third article of the Growth Blind Spots series, I explore the Trend-Spotting Blind Spot, one of the most overlooked risks for a Growth Strategy.

What the 2023 Thinkers50 Rankings and Gala Event reveal about the World... of Management Thinking
On a trip to Europe in early November, I found myself attending the Thinkers50 gala in London to cheer on my colleagues, co-authors, and friends Greg Bernarda, Alex Osterwalder, and Yves Pigneur.
Here's a brief report on my perceptions, feelings, and reflections from the event.

Who should lead the new talent war for your organisation?
At one point or another during the Covid-19 pandemic, many employees realised that their relationship with work had become a bad relationship. And so “the great resignation” started.
In this blogpost I want to highlight how this is triggering an existential crisis for the modern organisation, and how winning the new talent war will require a complete redesign of the organisation’s operating model; a redesign to be led by a new breed of Human Resources leaders.