Okay, maybe idiots is too strong. How about: stop wasting your time with people who add little or no value to your agenda. Or worse, those who detract from it? We all just collect these people as the months and years roll by. Like junk stuffed in a … [Continue reading]
In the land of the blind…
So many people are telling me that they don’t know what’s going to happen. Uncertain times. “Who knows how this will all land? Need to keep our options open.” Here’s an analogy. Imagine a race. A race where the prize is big. The winning rider will … [Continue reading]
The Use and Abuse of Role-Models
Get this development technique right and your skills will move forward very fast indeed. Get this wrong and you’ll be wasting a lot of time, and probably the time of others. Some quick pointers will hopefully set you on the right road: … [Continue reading]
A Delicate Balancing Act
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 … [Continue reading]
Three Cuts of the Knife
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 … [Continue reading]
Predicting Corporate Survival: A Fun Little Game to Play
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 … [Continue reading]
Power Plays in Pandemics
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 … [Continue reading]
Allowing Others to Play with Your Emotions
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 … [Continue reading]
Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing
A storm of epic proportions, and likely heading in your direction. You heard it here first, and while everyone is looking elsewhere. This storm, a storm the like of which you’ve never seen before, whose ferocity will sweep you off your feet and … [Continue reading]
Time to Stop Heeding the Experts?
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 … [Continue reading]
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