Tag Archives: Why

What’s in your overlaps?

My love of Venn diagrams comes from my background in Product management. It’s sort of compulsory, it’s the way we think. Most of us don’t think about Venn diagrams in relation to ourselves but I did because of a James Altucher post, in which he talks about focus (see point II). The conventional wisdom is […] Read More…

The Why of Digital

The digital revolution is dramatically affecting our personal and professional lives with both positive and negative effects. Whilst the effects are hard to predict and difficult to control but we can, and should, focus on the outcomes that we want to maximise. We have to decide what the point of digital is, decide why we […] Read More…

Why pandering to your audience never works. And playing safe is the riskier option.

When I left corporate life I didn’t really know anyone outside of the companies I had worked in. I didn’t have ‘a network’ of much substance. So, I went on ‘the circuit’ and set about building one. I didn’t know what I wanted to offer either. I had done many different things in my career […] Read More…