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Selase Dugbaza
Aug 13, 20250 min read


Right Action = Right Results?
An out-of-home care provider for at-risk youth was facing the loss of critical funding, not because their work lacked value, but because...

Selase Dugbaza
Aug 1, 20253 min read


How Systems Thinking Helped Ivan
Ivan’s Story Ivan, a former builder, bought a five-vehicle courier business for a bargain during the pandemic. He saw an opportunity. He...

Selase Dugbaza
Jul 21, 20252 min read



Selase Dugbaza
Jul 16, 20250 min read


Xanax for Managers
Should managers be prescribed control charts instead of anti-anxiety meds? Before you laugh, this might be the most soothing business...

Selase Dugbaza
Jul 16, 20252 min read


Is Strategic Planning Like Visiting The Witch Doctor?
After speaking with 200 businesses and organisations on “what’s the deal with strategy and planning”, one theme kept coming up: Strategic...

Selase Dugbaza
Jul 13, 20252 min read


Act Before the Signal: The Real Practice of Foresight
Fish don't wait for a collective signal to act We often know the truth. It sits in the palm of our hands, but we don't close our fingers...

Selase Dugbaza
Jul 11, 20252 min read


Do You Truly Exist?
We take it for granted that we exist, that our businesses and organisations exist. We see ourselves in the mirror of our lives and the...

Selase Dugbaza
Jun 22, 20252 min read


Contrast Reveals
Contrast is everything. Contrast reveals. It gives form to the once formless void, Sight, when we are blind, Sensation, when we are numb....

Selase Dugbaza
Jun 18, 20252 min read


Reflections on the Unseen Power of Strategy, Pt. 2
Navigating Oceans of Possibility In part 1, I reflected on how passively accepting predicted futures and believing they’re inevitable...

Selase Dugbaza
Jun 18, 20255 min read


Telling the Future is Creating The Future
Reflections on the unseen power of strategy, Pt. 1 Following Does it also seem to you that as a generation, we are far more...

Selase Dugbaza
Jun 13, 20253 min read


Pancakes and Systems Thinking: Odd Bedfellows?
Embracing Complexity: The Business of Soufflé Pancakes I’m mostly a savoury cook, except for crepes and indestructible rock cakes. This...

Selase Dugbaza
Oct 1, 20246 min read
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