The Hacker Way – The Mechanics of Hacking

Our everyday business lives are filled with incumbent systems, procedures and tools that simply don’t work. They’re constraining, inefficient and block the development of new, better ways of doing things. The intrapreneur is a ‘hacker’ at heart. They find the loops in the system, the paths to get around the blocks. This isn’t hacking in … Continue reading

Is It Better To Be Right Or Wrong?

Right Or Wrong?

The conventional wisdom in life and in business is that you must learn from your mistakes, and that it’s important for you to make mistakes in order to improve and ultimately succeed. But is this really the case? Is this merely a clichéd misnomer, after-all, you should learn a lot more from your successes, most notably to … Continue reading

10 Principles of Successful Risk Taking

Business has always relied heavily on research and testing to inform decisions, yet the onset and growth of the Internet as a channel to market has precipitated a doctrine that if you can’t quantify something, you shouldn’t do it. We’ve now come to a point where a pervasive cautiousness is stifling creativity, new opportunities and … Continue reading