Strategy → Impact

“If I had asked people what they wanted,” Henry Ford once said, “they would have asked for a faster horse.” It’s a quote that has endured because it captures a truth about progress. Most people don’t reject innovation; they simply interpret it through what they already know. The horse was the symbol of power, speed, and control. So when the first engines arrived, they had to be explained in that same language. That’s where the term horsepower  came from, an invented unit of m

Gold is unlike anything else on Earth. You can bury it for a thousand years and, when unearthed, it will shine exactly as it did before. It will not rust, fade, or corrode. It can be stretched into a wire half a mile long or beaten into a sheet one atom thick, but its essence remains the same. It is permanent and pure. Malleable, yet incorruptible. And even more extraordinary: gold is older than the Earth itself. Formed in interstellar collisions before the solar system exist

The polar bear is the largest land carnivore on Earth. A hunter built for extremes. Yet her life is not defined by abundance, but by...

What Skateboarding Can Teach Us About Leadership Culture Skateboarding. Yes, the coolest of all sports, offers some surprisingly profound...

The Myth of Risk: What Alex Honnold’s El Capitan Climb Teaches Us About Mastery To the casual onlooker, Alex Honnold’s free solo of El...

The Hidden Foundation of Creativity: Why Mastery Makes Magic Possible From McCartney’s Get Back  to Simon’s Bridge Over Troubled Water ,...

Over the Mountains: The Hidden Work Behind Mark Cavendish’s Victories Mark Cavendish was one of the greatest cyclists the sport has ever...

Leadership is not just about chasing results, it’s about building the fundamentals that make those results possible, again and again. As...

The Pale Blue Dot , a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from 3.7 billion miles away. That tiny speck, barely visible in a...

When Ernest Shackleton gave the order to abandon the Endurance  in 1915, the ship was already crushed by Antarctic ice. The men salvaged what they could before setting out across the frozen wasteland. Shackleton, leading by example, threw away his gold watch and cigarette case, symbols of luxury and comfort that had no place in survival. But he made one exception. He allowed Leonard Hussey, the expedition’s meteorologist, to keep his banjo. Shackleton called it “vital mental

The idea for this article comes from a presentation by Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy, who used a simple instrument, the car speedometer, to make a profound point about how perspective shapes behaviour. Most people know what a speedometer shows. Ten miles an hour, twenty, thirty, the familiar rhythm of movement. But fewer have noticed the smaller markings sometimes printed inside the dial, the paceometer . It shows how long it would take to travel ten miles at each speed. The info

At first glance, Christoph Niemann’s sketches look simple. A few strokes of ink, a coffee cup, a leaf, a wire, and somehow, a story emerges. That’s the genius of Sunday Sketching : transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary through nothing more than observation and imagination. What makes Niemann’s work remarkable isn’t the technical precision of his drawings, but the vision behind them. He doesn’t just see  an object; he sees what it could become . A bicycle beco