It is easy to set up a team… You take a bunch of people, put them in a room, give them a simple task and tell them to crack on with it. Setting up a team is easy. But teamwork is a different matter Teamwork needs: An understanding of strengths An admission of weaknesses Openness […]
PowerPoint, Smoke and Mirrors
A very important presentation I attended a power meeting yesterday. Lots of highly paid consultants in blue suits and incredibly shiny shoes came to tell us where we are going wrong. I sat there for an hour, looking at the screen. Slide after slide after slide passed me by. They were very impressive slides The technique […]
Less is More
All children are artists They can pick up a pen or a crayon and create. Before you know it they have drawn something beautiful, a flower or a house or a friend. Simple, clear and elegant. Unfortunately they just don’t know when to stop. The colouring in starts, red felt tips, green pencils, blue crayons, […]
Scientific Proof – Politicians are Stupid
The power of belief Have you ever wondered why people hold onto their beliefs despite statistical proof that they are wrong? Is it that we don’t understand what the numbers are telling us? Or is it that we just chose to ignore them? Dan Kahan is the professor of Law and Politics at Yale University. […]
The Princess and the Library Book
My youngest daughter is five She is enthusiastic in the way that only a five-year-old can be. She is also hopeless in the way that only a five-year-old can be. The other day I took her to the library, she loves books, particularly if they have lots of pictures of fairy princesses with long blonde […]
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