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16 June 2026 · New

Great Products Are Like Great Recipes

Most builders skip straight to cooking. They build all weekend, they launch, nobody orders. A six-step product discovery framework written as a cooking analogy — find your kitchen, explore the menu, confirm the craving, name it, design the recipe, and find out what could kill the dish. With the recipe card you hand to your AI builder, and the three shapes of first version that earn you the right to add the next course. Visual PDF included.

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6 June 2026

From AI activity to meaningful, scaled impact

Johnson & Johnson ran around 900 GenAI projects. 10–15% of them carried 80% of the value. That ratio describes more than a J&J problem. Deloitte reports 74% of leadership teams expect AI to drive revenue growth next year; 20% are seeing it. The fix isn’t more capital — it’s sharper focus. A four-phase method — Scope, Shape, Validate, Back — that sorts the AI portfolio into four shapes of bet and backs the three that actually drive ROI.

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4 June 2026

Innovation skills aren’t just for innovators

Five skills built for innovators and founders are among the most useful any leader can have. None of it is exotic. All of it can be practised — and as AI takes over the routine work, judgement and creative thinking become the part that matters most.

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25 February 2026

The Most Exciting Thing About Vibe Coding Isn’t the Code

The story isn’t that people who can’t code now ship software. It’s that the cost of testing an idea just collapsed — and the companies still running 18-month product cycles haven’t priced in what that means for their pipeline.

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20 February 2026

The Only “Safety” Left Is the Kind You Build Yourself

Stable jobs, stable categories, stable plans — the assumptions a generation of careers were built on are visibly breaking. The only durable safety left is the kind you build into yourself: skills, networks, capital and judgement that travel.

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9 February 2026

Making money with AI: beyond cost-cutting to revenue growth

Most companies are using AI to do what they already do, cheaper. The ones thinking ahead are asking which new revenue lines AI now opens — and why the cost-cut framing is the wrong place to start.

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12 January 2026

LEGO and the courage to stay playful and authentic

LEGO’s CES move wasn’t really about smart bricks. It was about a company that knows what it stands for — and uses that clarity to choose which innovations to back and which to walk away from. A lesson most innovation functions miss.

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8 January 2026

The Question Most Teams Don’t Really Ask

Before another priority lands on next year’s plan, there is one question most leadership teams skip. Asking it changes which initiatives survive the next quarter — and which were never going to.

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1 January 2026

Reflections at the start of 2026: Five leadership habits for a year of rapid change

Periods of rapid change don’t reward louder ambition. They reward five specific habits — the ones that let leaders notice real opportunities early and shape them, rather than reacting to noise.

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Perspectives on
innovation, strategy, venture-building.

Innovator’s Dilemma: watch out for the next wave of AI-driven competitive disruption

Strategic Innovation doesn’t need a department. It needs a playbook.

Great Products Are Like Great Recipes

From AI activity to meaningful, scaled impact

Innovation skills aren’t just for innovators

The Most Exciting Thing About Vibe Coding Isn’t the Code

The Only “Safety” Left Is the Kind You Build Yourself

Making money with AI: beyond cost-cutting to revenue growth

LEGO and the courage to stay playful and authentic

The Question Most Teams Don’t Really Ask

Reflections at the start of 2026: Five leadership habits for a year of rapid change

If you're at a crossroads,
let's talk.

Perspectives oninnovation, strategy, venture-building.

Innovator’s Dilemma: watch out for the next wave of AI-driven competitive disruption

Strategic Innovation doesn’t need a department. It needs a playbook.

If you're at a crossroads,let's talk.

Perspectives on
innovation, strategy, venture-building.

If you're at a crossroads,
let's talk.