To Succeed, Engage!

There is a dividing line separating forward-thinking businesses from the rest. Umair Haque (@umairh), director of the Havas Media Lab and founder of Bubblegeneration, has identified that line. In a recent HBR post on “The Meaning Organisation” [link],...

Strategic Science Fiction

2082 is 68 years away. Adrian Hon can take you there now. I found out about Hon’s provocative work via a post by Carmen Medina (@milouness) on the Deloitte University Press website [link]. She opens with this thought: In the same way that humans have a hard time...

Succeeding By Not Knowing

I had the pleasure of knowing Steven D’Souza long before the start of the Nextsensing Project. He has been a colleague and good friend for nearly a decade. In this post (based on his new book), I believe you will find Steven to be a thought leader who quickly...

All I Want for Christmas

Recently I was sitting at a table next to a young girl — no more than six years old — and I noticed her two front teeth were missing. I took particular note because I suffered from a similar fate when I was her age, and it happened to be around Christmas...

Five Classics To Enjoy This Summer

Hopefully, you will have some time to abandon work for awhile this summer, get away and get some well-earned rest. When I get the chance to do that, I usually bring with me a few good books, to fill the time on a slow-moving summer day. And while I am always open to a...

Too Good To Be True?

Late last year, I wrote about the coming “revolution” being created by the ambitious use of sensors. My comments came in response to an article I read about how GE was in the process of “putting sensors on everything”, generating a new...