A few years ago I interviewed the man who invented the graph database, the only significant advance in database technology in 40 years. We discussed…
If you are still in business, you have clearly reacted. You have probably started to respond, but have you reached the higher levels? The video…
Whatever “normal” means, I’m not sure we will be seeing a lot of it in the foreseeable future. One definition of normal is “that…
WLTM people who remain determined to find the seeds of positive transformation in today’s chaos. Read this, and if makes sense to you, let’s talk.…
A few years ago, I spent quite a lot of time speaking to Chief Executive groups. The results were mixed. Some groups really loved my…
In a previous post, I talked about the principle that: “if you have three hours a day and three priorities, you will make good progress.…
One of my clients ( a marketing consultancy) recently received an email from one of their biggest clients, a version of an email that a…
When I worked as a crisis manager, my job was to be successful where others had just failed. I usually found that my predecessor –…
I meet a lot of people who have brilliant new ideas to sell, and so many of them are frustrated. The video is a short…
A lot change management is framed, implicitly, as physics. There is resistance, which needs to be overcome. Applying force to the situation (urgency, fear of…
People use theories for two different purposes, one of which is much more helpful than the other. The recent death of Clayton Christensen of The…
I used to do a lot of speaking to groups of Chief Executives. Results were quite mixed – I seemed to be a “Marmite” –…
The time I should have been doing an MBA, I spent studying Taoist philosophy. It’s a maddening, fascinating collection of elliptically expressed ideas from a…
In a conversation recently I heard the words “activity rate.” This took me all the way back to a conversation I had in Madrid in…
You know the story – Hercules was set twelve supposedly impossible tasks, with the reward of immortality if he achieved them. The fifth was to…
The name of Sun Tzu will be familiar to just about anyone who has studied business strategy. I know one business school academic who told…
Very often I find myself helping clients with pricing. It’s one of the biggest levers to raise profitability. Usually I’m showing them ways to raise…
I meet many organisations who have a learning and development function, but never with an unlearning and development department. The unlearning department might be the…
Remember the story of King Arthur? At the start, he’s a nobody. A poor relation tolerated in a noble family, a lowly squire serving the…