Did you know that much of the common wisdom on how to accelerate social change do not actually work? Damon Centola’s book Change: How to Make Big Things Happen unravels many of these false rules of thumb that we hold about how to make big change happen and how social…

Adam Grant’s latest book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know needs to be read by anyone who is interested in why humans refuse to change their minds even if they are fully capable doing so. The book is a call for action: a call for rethinking…

Most of us think that success comes from working hard only on that one thing. Parents push their kids early on to excel so their child can become the next Tiger Woods, armed with the 10,000 rule and the assumption that the more you specialise, the faster you arrive at…

Have you ever wondered why some people just seem to be blessed with so much wit? That they almost always have an answer and a correct one at that? In her book Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova takes a deep dive into the remarkable ways one…

One of the core issues we all have to tackle every day is how to make decisions. If you are anything like me, you make a decision, look at the outcome and then blame yourself for not making the right decision. “I should have known…” But the latest and absolutely…

Most of us would love to think better, faster, and smarter. But putting things into practice and knowing which habits actually propel us towards better thinking patterns is sometimes a mystery. In Jenny Brockis’ book Smarter Sharper Thinking: Reduce Stress, Banish Fatigue and Find Focus there are countless yet targeted…

David Rock’s book Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work has been a very insightful read. The book builds on neuroscience and even though it was published in 2007, I am still blown away by how revolutionary many of the ideas still are today. In the book, David…

This week I have further reflected upon the Measure what matters, in particular the question: how do we know that we are on the right track even when we have set our mission, objectives and key results? In order to reach our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), these should be…

In Measure What Matters: OKRs — The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth, John Doerr explains why measuring what matters helps you to plan, track and achieve success. It makes intuitive sense anyway: if you are not measuring your progress, how would you know that you are really hitting your…