Picture this: three family businesses which have been in existence for 530, 300 and 210 years respectively, all with great heritage products…
Picture this: three family businesses which have been in existence for 530, 300 and 210 years respectively, all with great heritage products…
Companies which hog the high ground are so far ahead of those mired in the Ground Hog Day loop that (Bill Murray aside) it’s not funny. Th…
I’m currently doing a five-city speaking tour for Canon, speaking about the future of workspace. In my keynote I talk about the driving …
I’m not a great believer in multitasking, rarely, if ever, can anyone push 100% of their focus, drive and effort into more than one major ta…
Earlier this year a very secret list was discovered in a safe that (almost) nobody knew about. Written on it were 37 names, arranged by leve…
Big data is here – the future is bright and coming at a million miles an hour to a PC near you. Be excited, be very excited. Alternatively…
Our group of budding entrepreneurs have been in a funk following the Facebook IPO “failure”. In their eyes it is a failure because they …
A recent meeting with the human resources director of a well-known multi-national software development company got me thinking. We had met a…
For centuries battlefields have been strewn with the bloated bodies of armies that failed to innovate and, equally important, to gather good…
Leaders often appoint a “second-in-charge” (2IC); from a human instincts perspective, this is not a clever thing, as it distorts power.P…
Professionalism is something that everyone who wants to be good at something needs to strive and plan for every day. In office life, such pr…
No, this is not a commentary on Julia Gillard’s office politics. It’s about the playing fields of project management (PM) not cover…
