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 […]
When Will You Die Daddy?
A charming question asked me by my 4-year-old daughter this weekend. I didn’t know the answer so I had a search in line for some statistics. In Ancient Rome life expectancy at birth was 28 years old. If you made it through your first 15 years (avoiding all the horrific causes of child mortality) you […]
Caution: Management by Hippopotamus
There is a HiPPO in the room. It is big, loud, ugly and everybody is doing what it wants. The HiPPO is the Highest Paid Persons Opinion. You can spot HiPPO’s quite easily, they are expressed forcefully, everybody nods and agrees with them and they are always the last thing said. A HiPPO is a […]
How to Push Your Big Idea
There are two ways to push your next big idea: 1. The Business Case Pull together a fancy looking presentation with buckets full of analysis (discounted cash flows, net present values, operations analysis, customer value analysis, competitive positioning, the whole nine yards), it is the professional thing to do. Unfortunately: Your idea will be flat […]
Do You Test and Learn or Just Fail?
Samuel Pierpont Langley dreamed of being the first man to fly an aeroplane. His approach was simple, build the most powerful engine he could. Strap a couple of wings to it and watch it go. He was well funded. He and a large staff focused all their attention on developing a big muscular engine, something […]
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