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I've always loved watching the method travel. People from very different places and professions end up around the same table, building together. This October it's Utrecht's turn. At the end of the month we're running an edition of the PLAYMOBIL pro × Pro.Play® Certification there, and I'm genuinely excited about it. International editions have something special. Every group brings its own way of seeing problems, and that makes what we build so much richer. In the end, that's what this is all about: changing the question and looking at it from a new angle. If you're in the Netherlands, or you'd welcome an excuse to travel and learn through play, get in touch and we'll tell you everything. You'll find all the details on the official website.

How many meetings have you sat through where everyone was talking about the same problem, yet each person was actually picturing a different one? I've been in plenty, and for years I've been thinking about how to help a team see the same thing before they decide anything. That's what my new book is about. Tangible Future: How to Outsmart Complexity and Build What’s Next is out now: 268 pages built around one simple idea. When a problem gets complex, it's time to stop talking and start building. In it I share the PLAYMOBIL pro × Pro.Play® method, which draws on the neuroscience of embodied cognition. Put simply, we think with our hands too. With the kits, an abstract business problem becomes a 3D model your whole team can see, touch and improve. Along the way I look at how to get past your "inner editor", the voice that holds…