Hi I hope your week has started well. In the US the Superbowl took place yesterday - during the event, each 30-second ad spot costs a whopping US $5.5M. Talk about pressure to make sure your message is focused.Value leakageI've been thinking about wh...

Hi I hope you've had a good month. It's been quite a week as we come to the end of the month. Chicago, where I'm based, is going through a winter spell, which means I get to enjoy views of a beautiful Lake Michigan (see picture): I also att...

Hi I ended a recent article (to be published a month) with the following: “knowledge management is the change-making engine under the hood of every firm. It’s essential to capturing and optimizing the value of organizational knowledge that suppo...

Hi Happy New Year! I hope 2021 has started well for you.Here are three items to keep your week going. Leveraging constraints to foster innovationContrary to what may feel intuitive, innovation and creativity thrive when constraints are present....

Hi It's been quite a year and one that we will be thankful to have in the rearview mirror. I wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to each of you. Looking back, it's astonishing just what we achieved in 2020. Thank you!Those who don't know Fr...

Hi With the holiday period in full swing, I hope you are keeping well and enjoy some time off. In line with the festive spirit, this is the light edition - that means no deep insights. Here are three fun things I stumbled acr...

Hi I hope you are well. Here are three interesting items for the week ahead.READIt's been nine months since I was last in an office. I suspect that this is a similar story for many of you. I don't know what will happen in 2021, but I know t...

Hi I hope you are well. Last week Slack was bought by Salesforce for $27.7 billion. There are plenty of opinions on the acquisition, so I'll spare you yet another one. However, go explore the origin story behind Slack (the last-ditch pivot from...

Hi For those of you in the US, I hope you had a nice long Thanksgiving break. As I write this, we are 91.51% through the year. Here are three items to take you into December. THINKA couple of weeks ago, I facilitated a 90-minute workshop fo...

Hi As I wrote on LinkedIn recently, innovation has as many definitions as the number of people you ask to define it. Regardless of what you think of as “innovative,” the execution needs to permeate the business. With that in mind I thought it might b...