Strategy as Stress Survival
Nearly thirty years ago the Thomsons sold out of print newspapers, selling The Times and The Sunday Times to Murdoch. In 2007 they sold their college textbooks arm for a $2bn premium, making an offer...
View ArticleThe Change Planning Toolbox: 10 Initial Steps
This is intended as a checklist to start any personal or corporate change project. Just take a blank sheet/ screen and start answering the following: Initial planning questions: 1. What are you trying...
View ArticleHow Rework Works: Review and Observations
A hooky bag of snippets. A simple collage of truths. Or a sophisticated framework for success communicated well? Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rework – Change the Way You Work Forever, has...
View ArticleThings Get Done When You Do Less
As a member of the human species, you are hard wired to achieve. You may not feel like that if you’re sat there: brain diffused from multitasking, web-thread-chasing and information channel hopping....
View ArticleThe Power of Less: Babauta’s tips
I was struck by some productivity principles in the heart of Leo Babauta’s book, ‘The Power of Less’: - Slow down and enjoy every task. Pay attention to it and be in the moment to enjoy it. - Do one...
View ArticlePlasticity, Mind Power and the Human Brain
My approach to learning and development has materially changed over the last three years. I used to view myself on a gradual decline since the peak of degrees and professional qualification learning in...
View ArticleThere will be a last time…
There will be a last time you hear the sound of snow falling, watch the moon rise, smell popcorn, feel the warmth of a child falling asleep in your arms, or make love. You will someday eat your last...
View ArticleFive Lessons for Entrepreneurs – LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman
Five key business lessons that could serve to help entrepreneurs and other innovators as they look to the coming decade: 1. Look for disruptive change. As you are about to start a new venture, ask...
View ArticleAre you having visions?
Well, if you’re not, you should be. The power of the human imagination is still relatively little researched. Productivity literature, parents and teachers ask us to focus on the task in hand and our...
View ArticleSurely Continual Learning Should Apply to the Boss Too?
World in My Hand by Sachin Ghodke I was clearing through some old articles I cut and not yet reviewed. About a year ago the FT ran a survey of global business leaders to try and ascertain whether there...
View ArticleThe Power of Less: Babauta’s tips
I was struck by some productivity principles in the heart of Leo Babauta’s book, ‘The Power of Less’: – Slow down and enjoy every task. Pay attention to it and be in the moment to enjoy it. – Do one...
View ArticleThere will be a last time…
There will be a last time you hear the sound of snow falling, watch the moon rise, smell popcorn, feel the warmth of a child falling asleep in your arms, or make love. You will someday eat your last...
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