Have you noticed, the ones least troubled by our times, are those least dependent on their environment? Or rather, those who have the healthiest balance between taking and giving. No man is an island they say, and we all need to take from the environment. Society and...

The enemy of change is perceived certainty. Certainty is created by beliefs, though beliefs are usually disputable. No doubt believe that the world is round. Of course you are wrong in that belief. It’s not quite round, its more like spherical, and probably a little...

Last week in Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing I rashly suggested that I could weigh up an organisational setting and estimate its survival prospects. It's not a precise science (what science is?) but you can do it too if you know how. To whet your appetite...

Here is a clarion call for an independent mind, your mind. Have you noticed how powerful scientists seem to have become? Or rather, how powerful they appear to be? So much depends on my 4th Principle of Power: Perception and Reality. Let me explain. He who pays the...

Last week I have a chat with an acquaintance. Well no, not a chat, I got talked to. He got on his hobby horse on some topic that I was not particularly interested in, knew more about than he did, but he had me trapped. Without wanting to be rude of impolitic I...

Listen to them but don’t necessarily take their advice or agree with their analysis. The problem with most experts is threefold. Firstly, their skill and expertise has been built in the old world, before the big pause. What used to work may no longer work. The new...