Author: David
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Thriving in Consulting
Working in consulting, or the broader knowledge economy, requires continuous soul searching: being clear on your ‘why’, awareness of the trade-offs, and working on yourself to maintain a healthy mindset enabling you to grow and move forward. Companies have playbooks for this, but the frameworks in the playbooks can be out of synch with ‘reality…
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Climate existentialism
The hardest book I have read: The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming. Climate change is a ‘hyperobject’, ‘a conceptual fact so large and complex that, like the internet, it can never be properly comprehended.’ We are burning more carbon than ever before when we should be slowing down. What if climate change happens faster than…
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Category design (Part two)
Picked up Play Bigger again. The concept of category design makes a lot of sense and cross-links to many concepts out there already. In a nutshell: define and create a new category, and then dominate the category by positioning yourself as the category king. It is hard to unseat category kings due to the many…
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Business Model Innovation
I have been following how ‘business design’ is becoming part of the toolkit of digital and service designers. At the heart of any sustainable business is a profitable business model. Business model innovation goes hand in hand with product innovation. Understanding business model archetypes, the profitability of each, and how components can be recombined to…
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Radical Mycology
I really enjoyed Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. The chapter Radical Mycology really jumped out at me. There is so much in it that I’d like to follow up on that I decided to pull out some points here. In no specific order. What I find interesting is the role fungi plays in breaking down…