June 2019

What’s the perfect team size? Getting it right really does make a difference.

Whether you’re a big company looking to move fast or a small startup growing your team, size really does matter. Photo by Eva Blue on Unsplash Jeff Bezos, of the Amazon, is famously (if unreliably) credited with coining the two-pizza rule. This rule states that any team should be well-fed with only two pizzas, and is intended […]

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A little less strategy, a little more action; why most successful companies fail at strategy

I used to believe that strategy was a necessary component for success in business. We’ve been taught this in 50,000 books about strategy. We’ve looked to the military, been inspired by Sun Tzu, ogled the luminous foresight of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. We’ve been sold the desirability of disruptive innovation and the lustre of

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If your process doesn’t change, you’re doing it wrong

Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash I’ve recently been reading Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull’s description of the history of culture and processes at Pixar. Pixar’s journey, from a 3D rendering startup to its current place at the centre of the Disney empire has been influenced by luminaries like George Lucas and Steve Jobs, and more so

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