Neurology of meetings
How brain chemistry influences meeting culture Have you ever thought about how brain chemistry affects your workplace and performance across your team…
Communication
Is open office dead?
After more than a year in the home office, many workers will return to their work offices in the next months (in the late summer or fall this year). Bu…
Neurology of meetings
How brain chemistry influences meeting culture. Have you ever thought about how brain chemistry affects your workplace and performance across your tea…
The Decency Quotient
One basic quality that every successful leader must have is intelligence, which is usually measured by Intelligence Quotient or IQ. We do not want dumb…
The neuroscience of creativity
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of - vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. – D…
Tallest towers and endless seas: The motivating power of visionary purpose
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endl…
You Never Can Tell!
My mother would come out with the quaintest of pronouncements. One favourite turn of phrase, after listening to the nightly news on the wireless, was: …
Disturbance to Life
I was 15 when the war came to my town. I have just finished my first class of high school and sent my first article to a IT magazine, the second one, t…
Communicating Clearly: Successfully Managing Interruption Driven Platforms
As opposed to spending our time performing the duties that we are employed to do, over a third of us in the UK have admitted to wasting a significant a…
Why you should be careful calling it innovation
Some meetings go better than others, as we all know. Some time ago, I was presenting the results of a research project for a client, and was talking ab…
The importance of being (grammatically) earnest
Fifty-nine percent of consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) would chose to not do business with a company if the grammar on their website or public mark…
The art and science of communicating complex ideas
This article is based on a talk I gave at Bristech in December 2018: ‘Talking Tech: the Art and Science of Communicating Complex Ideas’. By all accoun…
Buzzwords and what to do about them!
Implicit to change is that we are moving towards a future state that is to some degree unknown to us. One of the stumbling blocks in affecting positive…
Communicating about innovation: two approaches to understanding your audience
Years ago, I remember reading a short story in which a barrister (I think it was Rumpole of the Bailey) successfully defended a driver charged with dan…
Innovation communications: the crucial importance of stories and shared language
Many years ago, when I managed the communications function for a leading digital innovation agency in London, we were engaged on a project for Sony. At…
Everyday Innovation: A Morning at Fidelity
I’ve known Simon Hill for a good few years now. Earlier last year, he said he would love to hold one of his ‘Everyday Innovation’ seminars at our Fidel…
Was JFK right?
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death." John F. Kennedy Well, I am not saying JFK d…
The Gentle Art of Questions
We live in a world of pace, high-energy and therefore the quickest way to get things done is often to tell people. Tell people how, what, when, and eve…