There are many possible reasons for hating your job. Or even just being indifferent to it. They’re all tragedies in taffeta. Dump them, burn them or turn them on their heads. We spend maybe a third of our lives ‘working’ – that is, doing stuff which brings us money to carry on living. Isn’t it […]
Read MoreSteven Covey wrote the hugely successful and influential ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’, which sits on my bookshelf behind me (with yellowing pages!) as I type. His approach is based on a deep analysis of principles, values and habits, leading us from dependence, through independence to the highest level, as he sees it, […]
Read MoreAdmittedly, I’m a sucker for cute little aphorisms and pocket-sized proverbs, whether or not they’re true or still valid. Many have become popular and often cliched exactly because they do refer to simple home truisms which we like to wheel out given any vaguely appropriate occasion. For me though, the best of these reality-bites, to […]
Read MoreI’ve been influenced by two things recently relating to the commercial process. One was a webinar I attended, quite possibly by Alex Mandossian, talking about how most of us spend most of our time footling around over unimportant product details instead of getting out there and promoting the thing. The second was Alex Baldwin’s ‘ABC’ […]
Read MoreComing up with the idea for the wheel, as Fred Flintstone probably didn’t, has clearly served us humans fairly well down the years. Representing women as assorted chopped up and cobbled back together body parts on a canvas is a less obviously useful creative act in the practical sense, unless you consider making Picasso very rich […]
Read MoreLeading, as good leaders know, is a vastly different kettle of fish to managing. Whilst channeled creativity and vision can useful to an innovative team leader, it’s on the ominous oceans of leadership that game-changing metaphors have to be hauled up on a strong line with an iron grip on the keyboard and a good […]
Read MoreLightbulbs literally fire me up! By illuminating whatever I’m working on of course, but also as an inspiring image to represent potentially great ideas popping out of nowhere like a light switch being flicked on. But let’s consider the wise words of the lightbulb luminary himself, Thomas Edison, who is reputed to have said: Genius […]
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