Roy S Sharples

Roy Sharples has spent much of his life in the company of improbable ideas.

Some became companies. Some became products. A few became books.

An entrepreneur and executive, he has worked with founders, investors and global organisations in the uncertain space between invention and impact, where the future is shaped less by prediction than by the decisions we make.

His writing explores the same territory from another direction: why some ideas endure, why some people see possibility where others see risk, and what ambition and success ultimately ask of us.

Creativity Without Frontiers explores imagination as an engine of progress. Alchemy of the Imperfectionists explores the stranger bargain of success. One is about what we make of the world. The other, what the world makes of us.

He remains convinced that technology changes faster than human nature, and that the ideas worth pursuing rarely begin with certainty. They begin with curiosity, imagination and a healthy distrust of the obvious.