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…
The world turns on its dark side. The fabric of society is shredding. Many of our most life-critical systems no longer work. A few have already collaps…
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. COVID-19 is forcing world leaders to practice crisis management in its purest and …
Psychology skills for leaders navigating through the waves of the corona crisis. Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. C…
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…
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. …
The coronavirus pandemic has magnified inequalities and other issues which are ingrained in our society. We have a responsibility to tackle these and t…
All of us need to declutter our drawers. Consider you are using a screwdriver to fix something on the dressing table and once the mission is completed …
It was a cold night but warm as toast inside the old furniture factory – a most unlikely venue that almost defied detection even with my GPS navigator …
Finding opportunities for innovation and growth is hard work. The value of having good, interactive, highly participative workshops breaks much of thos…
In the week in which Apple TV released their new documentary "The Year Earth Changed" with commentary by David Attenborough, which looks at the surpris…
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…
Consider how you would answer the following questions: Is the future known or unknown? What causes an organisation to move into the future? When transf…
There are three things that can be said about human knowledge with total conviction. All of it is interpretation. Much of it is temporary. And a great …
I wish the quote above was my own. It hails from Dame Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE. It elegantly captures the main points from the Minerals Week pan…
I have always been intrigued by the nature of entrepreneurship and so I regard myself as extremely fortunate to have worked with such highly creative a…
Economists and bankers one day; university vice-chancellors the next! Life is never dull in the world of corporate philosophy. Especially when traditio…
A few months before he passed away, Clayton Christensen said at an interview in November 2019, that we are trained to select data, analyse it and make …
There is something about the human mind and about the way we think that is at once quirky and persistently primitive: seriously out-of-kilter with cont…