In WWII there was a curious episode of an injection of critical thinking, not entirely well publicised. Big bomber airplanes […]

The difference between the critical thinker and the un-critical one is not a difference in IQ, or mental strength, or […]

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a 19th century Swiss mathematician is remembered by many things in his scientific turf, but by one […]

The process of creativity can be very messy. In fact, it is perhaps necessarily messy. Like the artist’s workshop. The […]

Company: Where companions are. Companion = com + panis in Latin, that is with bread, sharing bread of food. ‘Travelling […]

In my consulting work, it is incredibly frequent to see people stuck with a question: ‘but what do they want us […]

A friend of mine Carlos Orozco  uses this analogy. If you are driving a car and you have a puncture, you’ll try […]

When trying to understand a culture, there will be plenty of visible things to look at, to hear and to […]

Some cultures a very introspective. In a healthy way. Some are pathologically introspective and spend a lot of time dissecting […]

I don’t like to sound gloomy, but, is the current self-centrism an epidemic of colossal proportions? Or, another way to […]

I have described before the role of managers in many ways, often pointing to the risk of becoming ‘information traffic […]

We are pulled to conform to the group, to participate, to contribute, to say something. Nodding is not enough. Taking […]

I am (in) IT, I work for X (company) I work for X (company), I am in IT These are […]

I trust you because I can say ‘I haven’t got a clue’ and you don’t think I am an idiot […]

This is plagiarism, of course. I am stealing 13th Century Saint, Francis of Assisi’s  line: ‘Preach the Gospel all the […]

Let’s start somewhere else. What is the logic behind Listmania? Very often there isn’t one. But starting a note/blog/communication with […]

There is no such thing as kindness. Unless, and until, somebody does something to another human being who can feel […]

I read a while ago this story. Within the highly structured and hierarchical (by design) Catholic church, a Religious Order […]

In my world, ‘corporate’ is synonymous with big structure, big processes and big systems. Of course, it is not its […]

Nassim Taleb’s piece in Medium some time ago entitled The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority is one […]