The Big Five are five symphony orchestras in the United States that “lead the field in musical excellence and calibre of musicianship”. If you went to listen to them in the 1970’s, you would have noticed that about 5% of those excellent musicians were female. If you do the same thing today that proportion is more like a […]
Are Tall People Better Managers?
We all have biases; things that we believe are true, that drive our decisions and actions. But those biases can be blind spots, so they may drive the wrong decisions and actions. The worst thing about biases is that we don’t realise that we have them, they are part of who we are. As the old […]
What do You Give to a Man in a Desert?
That is a very simple question I’ll bet a simple, obvious answer has popped into your head My answer was a bottle of water, how about yours? What was your answer? Does he need… A camel? A map? A tent? An oasis? A fire? Some food? An oil rig? A phone? Some sun-cream? A dune […]
Eating at McDonald’s Gives You Acne
That is a libelous statement, but it is fairly obviously true, I was in McDonald’s with my children only last weekend and it was jam-packed full of spotty teenagers. It is a slam-dunk case of cause and effect. All those burgers will make you spotty. Really? What else could be going on? If you are a […]
Old Wives Tales and Conventional Wisdom
I spent Easter with my mother, siblings, their spouses and eight children. The weather was truly awful. I caught my daughter singing; “I’m dreaming of a white Easter”. In the bleak North of England it snowed on Good Friday. There are few things as unpleasant as 8 children running around a house screaming. So despite the weather […]
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