Blissfully ignorant
Research conducted by Cornell University concludes that many people hold excessively favourable views of their own abilities - particularly the ability…
Research conducted by Cornell University concludes that many people hold excessively favourable views of their own abilities - particularly the ability…
Have you ever heard the metaphor "thinking outside the box" or "beyond the box"? It means to think differently, in an unconventional way or from a new …
Recently I have become involved in a number of conversations to do with transformation. It has become clear to me that when most people talk about tran…
Mohandas Gandhi said that when trying to make any change that challenges the morality of the status quo, your opponents will at first ignore you, laugh…
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so Mark Twain We all know what leadership is. …
We are not at the end of COVID ’19 but we are not at the beginning of it either. We are somewhere in between. In such a crisis situation, what can make…
A few months ago I wrote about the powerful positive strategies my physio deployed to get me to change my behaviour for the better. They revolved aroun…
Hmm.... the dreaded L-word. No, I'm not talking about "the" L-word that makes hearts skip a beat the first time it's uttered to a significant other. I…
Firstly I would argue that innovation, to be managed well, needs to operate like an ecosystem, the same as a tropical rainforest. For ecosystems to fl…
I am constantly drawn to ecosystems and platforms as the connecting mechanism that can drive the need for greater collaboration, sharing, and exchangin…
The Fool on the Hill is a song by the Beatles which appeared on their 1967 album Magical Mystery Tour. The words describe the titular "fool" - a solita…
Recently I was captivated by an interview Anton Roux at ADC conducted with Martin Wolf – the Associate Editor and chief economics commentator at the Fi…
Around 6:57 PM every evening since early April, hundreds of people begin to emerge from their perches hanging on the steel and glass towers where I liv…
Is Coronavirus-19 the catalyst for a UK or even global social credit system? And if so, what would that mean for our productivity, adaptability, freedo…
My mother would come out with the quaintest of pronouncements. One favourite turn of phrase, after listening to the nightly news on the wireless, was: …
From the age of eight, I was a church chorister. Although I turned to Buddhism at the age of thirteen, when it occurred to me that the Bible was a work…
I was 15 when the war came to my town. I have just finished my first class of high school and sent my first article to a IT magazine, the second one, t…
In this week's focus on the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and following on from Part 1: Contagion: The Truth of the Matter, and Part 2: Opportunities i…
Following on from Part 1: Contagion: The truth of the Matter, and our three part focus on the novel Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak this week, one of our…
The World Health Organisation has now declared the current outbreak of novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 a pandemic. They were slow to act. But at le…