Category: Blog Posts

  • The Myth of Scale

    The Myth of Scale

    The brilliant Cooper Review once published a set of 10 Tricks to Appear Smarter in Meetings. They’re all excellent and can be seen every day in every office on earth. If you’ve been in a meeting with a consultant, you will have seen more than one of them. The one that I’ve found most interesting…

  • Decarbonising? We need to talk about process

    Decarbonising? We need to talk about process

    For giant energy and resources companies, 2020 was a perfect storm. We need to do more with less Process – getting from idea to finished product – is crucial to meeting ambitions The devil is in the details – we must be able to translate big goals into meaningful actions At the end of 2020,…

  • Great Decisions and Process

    Great Decisions and Process

    What makes a great decision? Nuisance is that most great decisions can only be seen in retrospect, after the consequences. That’s because we can’t know the future entirely, we can only make probability-driven guesses. That means that in the run-up to a decision, the effort is to skew probability as much in your favour as…