Insights

Changing World

Everyone should read Hamish McRae”s wonderful article in the Independent about projected economic growth over the next twenty years. called: “China is a hungry teenager eating up resources- and we can’t stop it.” The US is still a massive world economic power that dwarfs the current second biggest ecomony: ($14 trillion GDP as opposed to
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10 Top Gadgets of the Decade

Fast Company (I love that Magazine) lists the best gadget of the year from 2000 to 2009.  Starts with the Flash Drive for 2000 and ends with the Kindle 2 and other e readers for 2009.  Interesting choices (and runners up listed) PS2 makes runner up only.  The bumper year is 2007 when three gadgets
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New Jobs

The US Bureau of Labour Statistics has published a list of sectors where the greatest job gains will occur over the next ten years. The list contains some fairly obvious areas:   Services for elderly and persons with disabilities shoot up by 73%, but management technical and scientific consulting services rocket by no less than
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Want a Free Book

Seth Godin had a great idea.   Get 70 people to use one single page to share a thought for the new year. The broad heading is “What Matters Now“.  Publish it on line and give it away!  the result is some remarkable mini-articles, lots of contrast.  The whole thing is well worth flicking through
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Resilience a Necessity

i read an interview with Jean-Baptiste Debains recently in the Age.  He is the President of Louis Vuitton for Asia-Pacific.  Interesting guy:  trilingual; English, French and Italian (he was previously country manager for Louis Vuitton Italy).  Former management consultant with ten years at Louis Vuitton. What he said really  caught my eye: “At a time
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What I Learned At Learning 2009 (1)

I have been reading through my notes from Learning 2009. I had great pleasure in doing this as I lost my notebook from Learning 2008 in Edinburgh shortly after returning from the US.  So all the insights and memories went along with the book. And it still smarts over a year later. To avoid this
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Excellence by Design

Fast Company has reviewed a new book by Roger Martin.  Roger Martin is the dean of the Rotman School of Management (at the University of Toronto) and his new book is called:    The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage.   He thinks that companies are analysed to death and
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Too Clever by Half!

In Cairo showing off to Egyptian friends how easy it is to chane the language and keyboard on an iPhone. It is all soft keys so anyone can switch the phone in 10 seconds. I demonstrated it. It is true. The phone changed all menus  and keyboard on demand. Everyone was suitably impressed. Five minutes
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How It Is

If you visit Tate Modern on the shores of the Thames, the Turbine Hall installation this year is a huge metal construction by Miroslaw Balka called:  How It Is.   Imagine a massive, ten or twenty times over size, container (as in container ship) and then add on a bit more. It sits on stilts so
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Fox News Distortions

Lest anyone seriously believe that private capital is the only way to ensure freedom of the press or unbiased journalism, The Huffington Post gives ten examples of the worst news distortion by Fox.  The one below edits a statement by Obama on healthcare so it looks like he is endorsing a ‘european style’ healthcare system
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