InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Oct 2, 2025The Popeye Paradox: How Early Innovation Missteps Poison the WellA company proudly appoints its first Head of Innovation. Armed with a mandate to shake things up, this inaugural innovation chief launches…A response icon1A response icon1
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Aug 28, 2025Imbalance at Lego: Muscles, Microbes, and Management“Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.”- Rumi
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Aug 15, 2025The Little Red Riding Hood ChallengeFrom Little Red Riding Hood to Amazon Web Services, the stories we inherit shape how we see risk and opportunity. This article explores how…
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Aug 7, 2025Strategic Parasitism: How Customers Hijack Your Strategy[TL;DR: Just as parasites manipulate host behaviours for their benefit, our internal microbiota subtly influence our dietary choices and…
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Jul 31, 2025Echoes of a Forgotten Self: On Past Lives, Infantile Amnesia, and Organisational Origins“No company starts out as a cumbrous bureaucracy, but most end up that way. As an organization grows, layers get added, staff groups swell…
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Jul 10, 2025Healthy Terrain, Healthy Business: The Red Queen Hypothesis“Competition and cooperation are not contraries. They have no opposite meaning. They are complimentary. In every aspect of life, we do…
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Jun 20, 2025Corporate Weight Gain: Small Choices, Big Consequences“How did you go bankrupt?” asks one character in Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises. “Two ways,” his friend replies. “Gradually…
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·May 29, 2025The Organisational Clever Hans Effect: Is Honesty Safe?“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” — Thomas Carlyle
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·May 15, 2025The Genetic Bond: A Wolf in Sheepdog’s Clothing“We are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garden.” — Seneca
InThe Thursday ThoughtbyAidan McCullen·Apr 24, 2025Gold Crushes Ants: Why Overfunding Kills Innovation Before It Grows“If you give a ton of gold to an ant, it will only crush the ant.” — Sadhguru
