There is a category of thinking that does not happen at a desk. It does not happen in meetings, on calls, or between notifications. This lesson is about what happens to wonder, imagination and moral clarity when pace takes over — and what ten minutes in a different space can do about it.

The Hobbit is not a business book. But the moment Bilbo steps out of his comfortable armchair and into something that makes no rational sense at all contains one of the most useful strategic insights I have encountered.