We can’t tell the future. We acknowledge that we don’t know what we don’t know. There are even things we know we don’t know. There are therefore more gaps in our thinking than we have surety in. In fact, every positive decision we make may be one step away from failur...

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When you have an intent to achieve for the future, we tend to look at how we reach that from where we are. While this is essential, many a times, we can trace the steps of how we got to where we are now, and they may also show us they way to the future. This is calle...

Systems thinking is a very important aspect of being strategic. To be able to see things from above, and from below; to make the connections between different drivers of the system to identify the centres of gravity of a recurring problem; to fix the true cause of the...

Simon Sinek is a TED talk sensation and the topic of his talk is the same as that of his book, Start With Why.  In his book, he spoke about why it was most important to start all decisions, all discussions, all actions with why – why are you doing what you are doing....

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This is a very good question, because at the back of it, there are similar questions like: should we apply strategic thinking all the time and what conditions can we dispense with strategic thinking, and when must we absolute...

I chanced upon your website and been reading your posts. I find some of them rather interesting. I also saw that you answered people’s queries. So I have decided to send a query too; I hope you will answer it. I run a 6-man team, operating two retail stationery outlet...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore face a hard time recruiting people. For one, they cannot hold on to talent because the job market is so tight. A person can find a better paying job anytime in Singapore these days, simply because all organisations are...

No, it is not the Most Valuable Player but the Minimum Viable Product, which in a sense is the most valuable play in innovation. The MVP helps entrepreneurs learn about the product as it is put through its paces in development. This is the lean startup process, and is...

As with all thinking endeavours, it is as much what you say that determines the richness of your thoughts, as with how you think it. One can apply frameworks and tactics, but the depth and breadth of our thinking is largely shaped by the words we use in applying these...

You know the famous stories: The Hare and the Tortoise, The Little Engine that Could, and The Saggy, Baggy Elephant. All of them have a similar storyline – two main players, a better-endowed antagonist and a less-endowed protagonist. The story is always the same; the...