In Leadership Aperture and Innovation, we explore how the aperture you bring shapes the kind of innovation you create. Narrow aperture fosters incremental improvements, medium aperture enables systemic redesigns, and wide aperture opens the door to transformational breakthroughs. Each aperture has value, but leaders must learn to recognize which aperture is needed, when, and how to balance them as a portfolio. By becoming fluent in shifting aperture, leaders can avoid the trap of misalignment—pursuing big bets when small improvements would suffice, or clinging to tweaks when transformation is required.

 

Part One Innovation as Straetgy

In this module, I sit down with John Farrell—retired KPMG Partner and founder of Future Thinking—for a thought-provoking conversation on Innovation as Strategy. Together, we unpack why innovation isn’t just a nice-to-have, but a core driver of long-term organizational success.

John brings a future-facing lens to strategy, and we explore how leaders can widen their aperture using the PESTEL framework—a powerful tool for scanning the broader environment across political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal dimensions.

Think of this as a chance to zoom out from today’s challenges and experiment with seeing the bigger picture: how the forces shaping tomorrow can (and should) influence the strategic choices you make today.

 

Innovation as Strategy Part 2

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Explore vs. Exploit

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