I recently sat down with Blake McLean, UTS Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Associate Professor and Head of Performance R&D with the Oklahoma City Thunder, 2025 NBA champions. We discussed his research, which focuses on both player and non-player performance, and how it applies to organisational performance. Blake is also a keynote speaker at the CEO Summit 2026.

If you’re familiar with the Flywheel concept from Turning the Flywheel, you’ll remember when author Jim Collins sat down with Jeff Bezos and the Amazon team. It was the early 2000s, before Amazon Web Services existed, when Amazon was purely a product and e-commerce business.

NSW’s Innovation & Productivity Council (IPC) has released a timely blueprint on how to move from supporting startups to enabling true scale ups. In the "Scaling Ambition: Enabling the next generation of globally competitive scaleups" report, IPC identifies three levers — fund-the-funder, capability development, and structured internationalisation — as practical tools to help more hardware based startups to scaleup and reach global relevance.