Coach, Consultant, Author on Strategy, Leadership & Change
Eighteen months ago my father died of prostate cancer. Two months later a test showed that I too might have the disease. Fifteen months on from there, and after a variety of what we Continue Reading →
Instead of giving money to the Philippines (which has just been hit by possibly the biggest storm ever) why don’t we all take one less long haul flight this year, Continue Reading →
“Artist’s impression of the amplituhedron” which may shape how the universe works: Physicists have discovered that the universe might not be made up of space and time after all. This Continue Reading →
Gregory Bateson said that the cause of most of the problems in the world was because there is a difference between the way nature works and the way people think. Continue Reading →
An incredibly important talk, in this video from 2004, about how to live a worthwhile life. Seligman starts by talking about how psychology is moving from a ‘disease’ model of Continue Reading →
Quite a few memes on Facebook today have dealt with the passing of the 400ppm CO2 level in the atmosphere. It’s going to carry on heading upwards for a few Continue Reading →
In this metalogue, Bateson and his daughter talk about the meanings evoked by dance. This tells us something about what it takes to build a strong brand. Unfortunately, if we Continue Reading →
This metalogue talks about why we give things an outline when we draw them, and then moves on to the idea of whether you can give an outline to something Continue Reading →
In this metalogue the daughter asks her father: “Daddy, how much do you know?” Bateson calculates that since his brain weighs about two pounds (1kg), and he uses it at Continue Reading →
This third metalogue begins with the question, “Daddy, are these conversations serious?… Or are they a sort of game that you play with me?” It is an opportunity for Bateson Continue Reading →