Decisions under pressure
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Decision-making Under Duress
How sound decisions get made when time, information and margin for error have all run out, and what leaders can learn from those who face that every day.
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Books on strategy, innovation and decisions that cannot wait.
The questions I work on with clients, taken at book length: how to decide well when the stakes are highest, and how nations and companies compete once technology becomes a matter of national interest.
High-stakes leadership
Betrayed By Fog
Lessons In High-Stakes Decision-Making From The Tenerife Disaster
The Tenerife runway collision read as a case study in how experienced people and well-run organisations arrive at catastrophic decisions, with lessons for anyone who leads under pressure.
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Innovation & techno-nationalism
The Protopian Path
Winning The Innovation Game As A Nation
How nations compete for technological advantage, and what winning the innovation game asks of governments, companies and the people who lead them. The subject of my TEDxUniMannheim talk.
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Science for curious minds
Nuclinus and Atom Friends
A Journey Through The Periodic Table
A journey through the periodic table in the company of Nuclinus and the atom friends, written to make the building blocks of everything approachable.
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The Standard for Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio, Program and Project Management
I reviewed and contributed to the PMI standard that sets out how AI should be applied and governed across portfolios, programmes and projects.
Publication
Think Insights
I founded Think Insights, a publication on strategy, management consulting, leadership, digital transformation and data literacy, read by consultants and executives.
Articles
Recent writing on AI and leadership.
AI's Role In Bridging Data Skills Gap
The data management skills gap presents a significant challenge for the financial sector and beyond.
AI in Municipality
How Soon Will Complaints Handling Be Automated?
How do you define AI talent?
AI talent encompasses individuals with specialized skills and knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and related fields
Open to advisory mandates and keynote invitations
Facing a decision on AI or transformation that has to be right?
Tell me what is at stake, who has to be convinced and by when. Whether you need an advisor in the room or a voice on your stage, that is enough to start.