Introducing 'The Unplanners'

“There’s no point having a plan right now. But if you have a mindset of panic it ‘aint going to do anyone any good. It’s not going to get me through this, it’s not going to help my family. I can only ride this through from a position of clarity, calm and confidence.”

Ten years ago I headed to Austin Texas with David Sloly to share our idea with the world. In ‘How To Unplan Your Business’ at South by South West, we told the audience that the notion of long term business planning was past its sell-by date. That anyone with a business idea should launch and test it, and not get paralysed by a plan. That concept was at the heart of our 2010 book ‘Zoom! The Faster Way To Make Your Business Idea Happen.’

And now, ten years later, we are at a time of such flux, such rapid change and uncertainty that it feels we should be talking about Unplan again. Introducing ‘The Unplanners’ - a video series where David and I riff about the changing business world in which we live. We like to sit together in coffee shops sharing ideas. The Unplanners is like eavesdropping in on us.

There's no script, we just make it up as we go along. In episode 1 we talk about what we mean by the ‘Unplan’ mindset and how you can embrace the spirit of unplanning to ride out these choppy waters.