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Insights on Growth & Adaptation


What Leaders Can Learn from Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory has a lot to say to help us make sense of our lives and to help leaders be more effective too. Chaos theory tells us that...

Simon Mitchell
Sep 187 min read


The Trust Deficit
An Idea to Carry We trust the wrong metrics and are surprised when we don’t get the right results. Speed without care is a quick route to...

Simon Mitchell
Jul 172 min read


Boardroom Brawls: 20 Marketing Truths No One Wants to Hear
What started as a simple Reddit thread— “What’s your hottest marketing take that would start a fight in a boardroom?” —quickly turned...

Simon Mitchell
Apr 224 min read


How to Use AI to Break Free from the Narrow Thinking You Didn't Realise You Had
AI as a strategy tool to reduce bias. When I started exploring AI strategy through an MIT programme, I created a list of more than twenty...

Simon Mitchell
Mar 273 min read


Why Your Business Can't Afford to Wait for the Innovation Spark
Teams have all the innovation you need For as long as people have had problems , innovation has driven progress. It's what has propelled...

Simon Mitchell
Feb 194 min read


AI overwhelm? Start here
Use AI to support your business strategy In the old days, every company thought it needed an online presence. Everyone else was doing it,...

Simon Mitchell
Feb 132 min read


Second-Level Thinking for Long-Term Success
Howard Marks popularised the concept of first and second level thinking in his book "The Most Important Thing" (currently a healthy 4.5...

Simon Mitchell
Jan 243 min read


AI Search Engines AreTransforming SEO and therefore Marketing
I love the way that AI search engines are changing the SEO game. Now while I'm sure that companies like Google have their alternative...

Simon Mitchell
Jan 223 min read
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