thinking error

Why Institutions should listen to the ‘one’

A good talk on why the 80/20 rule leads companies to miss placing their resources on the ‘one’ that will make the difference in favour of what appears to be the sensible investment to the bulk of the respondents. He also shows that what we think is the ‘average’ and thus the right place to [...]

Creativity is Lonely

I’d like to ‘plug’ Hugh Macleod and his web site ‘the gaping void’. So I’ve clipped this image from his website today. He worked for years (10,000 hours +) doing cartons on the back of business cards. The cartons reflect his life and calling to be a creative. His books are refreshing (with pictures!) and [...]

Whats holding you back?

I just read a story. Its about a top executive who excels at everything she does. Her latest success was to learn to fly and so she invites my friend to go on a flight. He arrives to see her starting to do all the preflight checks on the aircraft. Its on the tarmac and [...]

Seth Godin on It is broken!

Currently one of my favourite videos. An unusual look declaring what’s ‘obviously’ wrong around us BUT we still live with! The challenge is to look at our workplace, my job, my home life and make a change.

Do we believe in Expert’s? Talk by Noreena Hertz on TED

Innovation in thinking comes from thinking with the help of experts, but not when you just take what they say as it! Future development will depend on us all being able to work outside of our natural thinking and embrace variation.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

YouTube – RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.

Odd one out?

I like this photo. It tells a story, but its not about the pig! Its about the odd one out. For me that is the guy on the far right, the one that looks sort of normal (for you it might be another?). So he looks OK, he’s in black, so that is PC. He [...]

Do you see a Pattern?

Do you see a pattern? I watched the film Body of Lies last night. The leader of the CIA said to his agent ‘we are very solutions focused organisation….We need results’. His result was nearly the death of Di Caprio’s character, while the seemingly more obtuse and relational activities of the Jordanian intelligent [...]

Warning -Exec ‘Out of Order’

I have a theory that most of us are only really (capital R) good at one or two things – and probably at our core, just one. But in practice CEOs and SME directors are expected to be able to read balanced scorecards, coach their staff, understand every financial report, be social media savy, while [...]

Fundamental Attribution Error?

What you see is often not what you get! I’m a believer in Blink and other books that encourage your intuitive nature to pick up who you are working with and make decisions based on your gut. In fact most of my business life I’ve worked from an entrepreneurial spirit seated in this part of [...]