The cluster strategy is how we, as subject-matter experts, take our ideas to the world. You could think of it as a strategy, but that both overstates/understates it at the same time.

If you would like our curriculum handbook for creating commercially viable clusters, simply email me (matt@thoughtleaders.com.au) a little bit about what you're offering to the world, where you live and what drives your work. Seriously, I will personally read it and reply. Our Business School is a mentoring proposition and requires that we have a sense of each other.

A belief that appears often in our community is this: all the good ideas are already taken. It sounds true, but it is not.

People are overwhelmed. We're carrying a lot, and when people are overloaded, they reach for shortcuts, quick fixes, and certainty. This is what psychologists call a need for cognitive closure, and it's connected to the global rise of authoritarianism. As documentarian David Marples said, "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance." When our capacity for nuance shrinks, we open the door for more rigid controlling forms of leadership. I share a practice I use called sitting with a circle of thinkers to slow down and invite curiosity instead of rushing to the comfort of a single story.

blog.thoughtleaders.com.au/the-rise-of-authoritarianism

The scale of our modern lives is beyond human scale. The world is asking things of us that are bigger than we are. This made me ask: what is this moment asking of me, and am I right-sized for it? I've landed on three principles: intimacy is an advantage, there's nothing to prove, and get good at holding bigger space for yourself and others.