“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – attributed to Peter Drucker A 2021 Freakonomics podcast by Stephen Dubner quotes Vikas Mehrotra, a finance professor at the University of Alberta on the “Cobra …
“I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right’” – Vince …
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley A post of mine from 2020 related the unfortunate story of the Vasa, a large and expensive …
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford In the foreword to my first book, I described an interview in Houston that led …
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” – Voltaire Inevitably, while writing this blog, I have a coffee in front of me. Over the last few years, in the …
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses” – George Washington Carver Several years ago, while based in Texas, I was …
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller Because innovation it’s not just about having a great idea – because it …
“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to …
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought” – Albert Szent-Györgyi In my first book, I wrote about how innovation is not necessarily …
“My definition of ‘innovative’ is providing value to the customer” – Mary Barra For the last few years, I have lived in the centre of Cheltenham, a town …
