Efforts to innovate work when they combine the creativity multiplier of imagination and connections with skill and endeavour. Or in other words, innovation succeeds when great ideas are well executed. Whereas idea making is all about the art of the fantastically possible, execution is about confronting and overcoming risk.  Adventurers know all about achieving goals by balancing their ambition with creative pragmatism – as demonstrated by the polar explorer Ben Saunders who has just reached the South Pole and holds the world record for the longest polar journey on foot. Saunders pushes himself further so that he can go further […]

If you resolve to do anything this year, do more. If you resolve to do more, do it well. DO MORE We are conditioned to celebrate singular or specialist expertise. We feel good if we master something and at this time of year there is often a focus on acquiring a new trick, ticking off a new destination or even doing less of one thing so we can concentrate on doing the right thing. If we want to grow, to achieve more and create something new there is a simple lesson based on the greatest innovator of all – Leonardo […]