J K Rowling’s commencement address is a beutifully crafted speech about Failure, imagination and responsibility.
Witty, humourous, touching and succinct.
How Creative Thinking Happens.
If Creative Thinkers Are So Clever, Why Do We Still Have Problems In the World?
How to Optimise your Work Environment.
How To Change a Habit.
The 5 Stages of a Design Thinking process.
Design thinking is a structured process for creatively approaching complex problem solving and product development by understanding, deconstructing, reasoning and reconstructing the problem. There are 5 basic stages: Analysis, problem framing and defining, ideation and creative thinking, modelling and prototyping, and testing and evaluating.
Creative perspective. How creative minds see reality.
On the Wings of an Eagle
“Heaven helps those who help themselves.” The Self-Help Book Industry.
Overcoming the Monster. Patterns of Power in stories
Conspiracy Theories
How Constraints and Limits Boost Creativity
Inventing The Enemy
Political Decision Making. The Long and the Short of it.
Uncertainty about the future is nothing new. In conditions of uncertainty, such as we have now, navigating towards a distant destination is perilous. Conditions change, viewpoints change, but if the destination is clear, then all decisions will point in the same direction toward the objective. Confidence, clarity and focus about this ultimate destination require perseverance and determination.
The long and the short of it is the problem. Short term thinking only leads to short term answers.
The 6 Stages of Critical Thinking
The Amazon Flywheel Concept, The Virtuous Cycle
Hot Gossip
Gossip is part of our culture. It has fuelled tabloid newspapers, TV shows, and tell-all books and has found itself in many company cultures. The problem is that gossip, more often than not, tends to be negative. It’s a way of talking about someone who isn’t present and to whom you wouldn’t talk in the same way if they were directly in front of you.
