Insights on Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Leadership, Innovation, and the Future of Work

For generations of Star Trek fans, Spock embodied logic in its purest form: rational, precise, unemotional. When humans panicked, Spock calculated. When emotions flared, he calmly reminded us that “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. Spock became our cultural shorthand for logic. And yet, even Spock’s story reminds us that logic alone is not the full story.

Since childhood, I’ve been captivated by stories that stretched the imagination... "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Lost in Space", "Star Trek", "The Matrix" and, of course, "Star Wars". Beneath their adventure and spectacle, these tales shared something timeless: the belief that curiosity and courage can transform the world.

We celebrate creativity as the spark behind innovation, progress, and human achievement. But let’s be honest... it doesn’t always flow freely. We all too often find ourselves blocked, stuck, or silencing our own ideas before they ever leave the page. Why? Because creativity has enemies. And they’re sneaky!

We’ve all had them... flashes of insight in the shower, on a walk, pedaling furiously on your Peloton, or during a late-night brainstorm. And how many of us share the experience of seeing a new product or service and saying: “I thought of that… but I didn’t do anything about it!”

Creativity has shaped our survival—from the time early humans gathered around fires to share stories of the hunt and preserving them with prehistoric cave paintings that offer vivid and mysterious windows into the earliest days of humanity. While other species evolved fangs, claws, or wings, we evolved imagination.