Fractional and interim executive
Strategic Leadership
that scales
with your business
Five years later…
Posted this in 2006.. Not much seems to have improved. The way of the future indeed.
One more argument against multitasking
We may think we multitask, but in reality we switch-task, and it's not doing us any good, according to an article at HBR. The author of the article stopped multitasking, and discovered six things: First, it was delightful. Second, he made significant progress...
Personal social media strategies
Harvard Business Review has an interesting article on personal social media strategies. The first example in the article really drives it home. Even if you don't have a social media strategy yourself, or are not active on social media, others that talk to you are, and...
Reading: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell) Gladwell describes three separate agents of change: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. Each of these has extraordinary power to move the Tipping Point....
Reading: How to Think
How to Think (Stephen Reid) In a fast and complex world, we can’t work any harder so we have to work smarter. The ability to think clearly, quickly and creatively is crucial, yet many of us don’t realise how limited our thinking is. Intriguing book on how to ‘think’...
Will we be matched by machines by 2029?
Tagging on my previous post on "shift happens", ever serious site BBC Machines states that machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029. And we'll be having nanobots inside our bodies.Click here for the full article.
Flashback: The Double Life
For years, I've lived a double life.In the day, I do my job - I ride the bus, roll up my sleeves with the hoi-polloi.But at night, I live a life of exhilaration, of missed heartbeats and adrenalin.And, if the truth be known, a life of dubious virtue.I won't deny it -...
The Abilene paradox
The previous post on the Asoh defense led me to another real gem, the Abilene paradox. Where I work, they have something called "disagree and commit". It's a good principle if it works, and when there is ample time to discuss, as this post explains. It tends to get a...
The Asoh Defense
The Asoh Defense is real simple:If at first you don't succeed ... just admit it. "Yup, my fault, I f***ed up."Not something you ever really here in the corporate world, do you?Click here for the story behind the Asoh defense.The part where they link it to the...
Reading: The Elephant and the Flea
The Elephant and the Flea (Charles Handy) The Elephant and the Flea is both a poignant personal memoir and a deep reflection on the past and future of world capitalism, with all its possibilities and pitfalls. In a tone that is at once learned, genial, witty, and...