Brett Macfarlane

Innovation Leadership, a Manifesto is the subject of the next edition of Connecting Dots coming on Sunday. Subscribe here, no paywall, Substack or marketing sales funnel malarky. brettmacfarlane.com/newslett…

What the Whistler or Squamish tourism associations tend to exclude from the “authentic” brand campaigns. Regular accidents and gridlock. Stay safe and try not to crash people. #highway99 #hwy99

Podcasts are a great way to avoid silence, hearing your own thoughts and thinking for yourself.

Is TED in decline? I’ve noticed @TEDTalks are advertising tickets pretty hard this week here in host city Vancouver. Not sure a $12,000 USD ticket you also have to apply for to watch YouTube videos being filmed is a good look any more. Am I wrong?

Increasingly seeing disillusioned "unicorn tech-era leaders" realizing their success was timing not their simplistic world views. The bummer is rather than learning new capabilities and serving society they regress to permanent vacations and building projects. Come back friends!

Are you sick and tired of traditional old bottled water? Try fresh new tap water.

App-less smartphone? What if it's the next step of dematerializing our interactions with brands. reuters.com/technology/deuts…

The second I smell your emails are a sales funnel —> unsubscribe.

BEAST HEADLINE EVER!!! "Floating sauna rescues motorists whose Tesla plunged into Oslo fjord" theguardian.com/world/2024/f…

Save lives, in demanding situations and look great. Figs constantly impresses. wearfigs.com/collections/fig…

Dependency by staff and avoidance by leadership is a possibility why office rules are muddled. fortune.com/2024/01/23/worke…

"Jargon Monoxide" is my new favourite org psych term from Bob Sutton.

Many leaders and organizations want to change without changing.

My wife calls the Toronto Maple Leafs the “maple leaves” and I couldn’t be happier.

Business thought leaders and social media influencers are identical, they both constantly need a new trend to create content. What if we consolidate the choreography and insight industries into one AGI virtual personality and sold it to Accenture and Nike?

People often envy my hybrid work structure. As this article reveals, just as important as the org being flexible is me being flexible and intentional with my presence in service of our shared goals. forbes.com/sites/danpontefra…

Whistler Blackcomb skiers outraged @VailResorts can’t overcome physics, mechanical tolerances and human skin frailty in extreme cold weather conditions. Only four lifts running today. Only lower mountain. Seriously tho, damn it’s cold even for Whistler. 🥶 stay safe!

Prediction 2024: The adoption of AGI by management consultant will exponentially increase strategy hallucinations in corporate boardrooms.

Would you disagree with this statement? "The more a company cluture is dependent on storytelling the less rigourous and more impulsive their actions."

There is a missing element of the Hype Cycle of the current AI wave. There is a lot more angst and less Utopianism. Not due to the tech itself, but AI-Angst is public realisation how many business processes have been dehumanised through software over the past 30 years.