My youngest daughter has just turned 5. She is a big girl now. For her birthday we gave her a bicycle, it is all pink and sparkly and covered in princesses (you can never have too many pink sparkly princesses). Last weekend we took her out to ride it then.. My wife and I went […]
Why Giving Away Your Profits Makes Financial Sense
Here is an action packed game for you to play at home; it is called the ultimatum game, the rules are very simple: Two people are given £1,000 to split between them. One of the players proposes how the money should be split and makes an offer. The other player gets to accept or reject […]
How to Change Behaviour or Why Fish Don’t Ride Bicycles
It is a big challenge, maybe the big challenge. How do you sustain change? How do you get people to do something different, to change their behaviour? Here is a model to frame the problem… There are 5 stages people have to pass through before they will change their behaviour for good: Awareness Want Know […]
Nothing Hurt But My Ego
It is a truism that you learn by failing. I recently bought a pair of clip in shoes for my bicycle. Everybody told me I would fall over once, they were right, it happened when I came to a stop at some traffic lights at the head of a queue of cars (very embarrassing). At […]