The Reinventor’s Mindset™

Last week I stood in an operating theatre in Christchurch watching a hip arthroscopy up close.   I was visiting Mark Stewart, COO of Southern Cross Healthcare , to see how New Zealand's leading hospital network balances patient experience and operational efficiency. I'd squeezed the visit in between adviser conferences following the full launch of MLC Retirement Boost. The surgical team moved like carpenters. Precise. Almost detached from the emotion of the situation. They pu

The Prune the Tree framework. You don't grow by adding. You grow by having the honesty to subtract what's no longer serving who you're becoming - and the directness to name it.

In a world obsessed with removing friction, a room full of entrepreneurship academics began debating how to make things deliberately harder. Here's what I learned at ACERE about teaching mindset inside large organisations.

On the first day of INSEAD, our professor said something that stuck with me:    "This course will be confronting as you realise it's the last moment to reinvent yourself."   I thought quietly - that's BS.   I've been reinventing myself my whole life. And so can you.  Where did it start? In squat little government housing near Top Ryde. My nose buried in books - fantastical worlds far away from the volatility of my childhood. I devoured them.  I grew to love science fiction. N