Today’s status quo
On the other hand, doing something a particular way because that’s what everyone else does – or because it’s how it’s always been done –… Read More »Today’s status quo
November 2018
Conservatism and the status quo
Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek make good arguments for leaning towards conservatism (small c). For all its problems, the relatively stable equilibrium we live in… Read More »Conservatism and the status quo
When to decide
Decide before it happens. Ahead of time, when it’s easy to decide, when you can plan a strategy – set up a game – that will… Read More »When to decide
Starting line
Where’s the starting line? Sometimes we’re a few steps further down the track than the people we want to take with us: we’ve given it… Read More »Starting line
A great place to work
More from Tom Peters – slides copied in with his encouragement to preserve the idiosyncratic formatting.***** Tom Peters: Richard Branson on the purpose of business:… Read More »A great place to work
Crocapocalypse
Due to an unforeseen but crocastrophic mistake (or an unhelpful linking of two different wordpress sites in my browser – not sure which), I accidentally… Read More »Crocapocalypse
Tom Peters on human resources and servant leadership
This is a slide from Tom Peters on putting people really first – well worth checking out.
Anything yet: the hockey stick
Sustainable growth? I was going to call this ‘the exponential function’, but I didn’t want to put you off. This is a key force behind… Read More »Anything yet: the hockey stick
Anything yet
Here’s the intuition: New technologies – including ideas, techniques and ways of thinking, as well as physical tools – very often come from the creative… Read More »Anything yet
Counting stamps
Examining the economics of the mail, he [Charles Babbage] pursued a counter-intuitive insight, that the significant cost comes not from the physical transport of paper… Read More »Counting stamps
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