On work and love
Freud revealed to us that life is work and love. These two sides of the same coin are what life is all about. But as a culture we find it much Continue Reading →
Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Leadership
Writing in The Churning I have been thinking about the way in which leaders design and manage change. They use the insights they have gained over time to design a change Continue Reading →
Toyota case study
Over the past decade Toyota has grown to catch up and then overtake General Motors as the world’s leading automotive manufacturer. This short video explains how this remarkable gain can Continue Reading →
The biggest biotech discovery of the century is about to change medicine forever
This article in Business Insider explains how biochemists have created a tool that enables them to cut out a particular piece of DNA in human cells and replaced it with another Continue Reading →
The Churning of the Milk Ocean
A friend has sent me pictures from Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, where a large statue tells the story of The Churning of the Milk Ocean. This is a Hindu legend Continue Reading →
I am not a thing, a noun — I am a verb, a process
I found this on googleplus today: “I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not Continue Reading →
Oil price drop represents effective 10%-20% divestment from fossil fuel industry
The fossil fuel divestment movement has been gathering pace in recent months, but is still relatively small. A few weeks ago I attended a lecture given by Michael Liebreich, head Continue Reading →
Black Friday
If you can offer these products at these prices for one day a year then you can offer them for the other 364 as well. The fact that you do Continue Reading →
Dodging the climate bullet
I went to a talk last week, part of a series organised by the Smith School of Business. It was given by two people* who are looking for ways to encourage investment funds Continue Reading →
“Integration of looking both inward and outward is the most powerful formula we know for creating long-term, high-impact organizational change”
As I near the half way point on writing The Churning, I’ve come across another management article that supports the need for the book. This one comes from the McKinsey Quarterly in Continue Reading →