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Seth Godin:why tribes will change the world

Video courtesy of www.ted.com

Hunting goodwill

We need to  make sure that the principle of “give and take” is not always demonstrated by the employee giving and the management taking.
If you’ve ever seriously considered dropping out from the rough and tumble of the corporate world, you might have looked at buying an established small business such as a pub or a [...]

We need to get out more

We need to get out more. The credit crunch has affected attendance at industry events and this will have a longer term effect, because getting out of the office is an important part of our personal, professional and organizational development.
My own observation of events in the UK (and reports from the U.S.) show that great [...]

one step forward, four steps back?

It looks like the MOD has yet another poster child for The Trillion Dollar Bonfire. The latest Ministry of Defence Annual Report and Accounts make sorry reading; for a number of reasons, not the least being the following damning statements:
“It is difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure of the Joint Personnel Administration programme” and: ”The lack of clarity [...]

how often do big hitters strike out?

Do the big names in a field really deliver consistently great results, or would their clients be better advised to employ their lesser-known competitors?

The writing on the wall

People will tell you that if you are too close to a problem, you should just step back and take a look from a different angle.
Sometimes though that is not enough; for some problems objective distance is impossible for stakeholders so you really need someone else to look at your situation and tell you their [...]

Strategist Beware!

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary’s men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, in disgust at [...]

A new can of beans

Here are two new straightforward questions to open the agenda of every organisational meeting (from the board of directors through team get-togethers):
Are we communicating effectively?
Where are our relationships struggling?

This isn’t business, this is personal

All too frequently we hear of large losses of personal data. But who owns your “personal” data?
Do you always own your data, or does your data belong to someone else once you have entrusted it to them?
And, of course, the fundamental question is: do you care about who owns your personal data?