A friend of mine, and a great management consultant, told me once that when he needs to grab the attention […]

William Stafford’s (1914 – 1993) poem reads: The things you do not have to say make you rich, Saying the […]

Invited to present at TEDx East London, I had lots of conversations with its wonderful Curator Maryam Pasha.  The theme […]

Some organizations are little versions of Dante’s Inferno with its sign ‘Abandon all hope to enter here’ at the door. […]

A friend of mind, a great artist, posted his latest challenge in Facebook.  He had presented a product idea to […]

Saint Francis of Assisi is a 13th Century figure revered as a Saint by the Catholic Church, and who founded […]

Launched this week, thanks for the growing list! We had  two false starts delivering garbage text to our subscribers. And […]

Adolfo Suarez, first President of the Spanish Government in the democratic transition, died on the 23rd of March at 81. He […]

The automatic pilot thinking during a merger says: lets take the best of company A and the best of company […]

Many people, many of them in high managerial positions, succeed by avoiding failure. They become unmemorable by design. A new […]

When I did my MBA many moons ago I had to comply with the fashion of the Business Case Study. […]

I can’t remember where I saw this. This is part of the point. It could have been anywhere. But I […]

Emotional Intelligence was a paragraph-length concept expressed in a library of publications. At the time it was a shock in […]

Many corporate initiatives are one-off efforts to get everybody involved, aligned or communicate some messages. Away days, off sites, Conventions, […]

Last week I was in a hotel and conference centre in Belgium, half way between Brussels and Antwerp, working with […]