by Mark Harling | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog
Do you ever feel like your organisation is constantly stuck on a hamster wheel of false choices? Centralised vs. Decentralised? Innovation vs. Stability? Short-term results vs. Long-term vision? People vs. Profit? We treat these as problems to solve by picking one...
by Mark Harling | Jun 23, 2025 | Blog
Over the past few months, I had the privilege of supporting a visionary tech company during a critical leadership transition. Unlike many organisations focused on replacing cogs, they recognised that filling a role was not about finding an identical spare part – it...
by Mark Harling | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog
How can we encourage our operational leaders to think more strategically? This question has been on my mind recently, particularly after reading some new research on the subject. One notable finding is that: 97% of senior executives rate strategic thinking as the most...
by Mark Harling | May 9, 2025 | Blog
This year at the CREA Conference, I had the privilege of sharing a meal with Guy Aznar. For those unfamiliar, Guy is a pioneer in applied creativity—a French psychologist who founded Synapse in 1966, the first French organization dedicated to creative thinking. He...
by Mark Harling | May 2, 2025 | Blog
As someone who’s spent years working in change and transformation, I’ve heard the phrase “resistance to change” more times than I can count. It’s a convenient label, but I’ve never been fully convinced it tells the real story. People aren’t inherently...
