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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust - St. Thomas Aquinas - ( Feb 2026 )
By January, many of us are already exhausted by ourselves, and by the prospect of having to fix ourselves yet again ( Jan 2026 )
The man with the beard will not resolve any issues ( Dec 2025 )
Most people agree that politicians are liars, yet people still vote for them, what does that say about us? ( Nov 2025 )
Change is the only constant ( Oct 2025 )
Leadership has become an academic subject, not related to the real world ( Sept 2025 )
Principles prevent the belief of being a little pregnant ( Aug 2025 )
“When a Clown moves into a Palace, he doesn't become a King. The Palace instead becomes a Circus.” A Turkish proverb. ( July 2025 )
Don’t complain that the rose bush has thorns; rejoice that the thornbush bears roses. ( June 2025 )
Brain surgery lessons for plumbers ( May 2025 )
AI and the paperless office from the 1970's ( Apr 2025 )
Next we might have underwater soccer, but only for red haired people ( Mar 2025 )
Confirmtion that UP is now DOWN and LEFT is maybe RIGHT ( Feb 2025 )
Words are cheap ( Jan 2025 )
Shoes that fit ( Dec 2024 )
There is no Truth without the context of history ( Nov 2024 )
What motivates discussions around the water cooler? - ( Oct 2024 )
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin - ( Sept 2024 )
The destruction of human personality ( Aug 2024 )
- Many years ago IBM had a simple slogan - THINK - then what happened? ( July 2024 )
- Politicians and business leaders never lie !! ( June 2024 )
- Activity vs Progress ( May 2024 )
- Please explain - new words such as "dispositive" ( Apr 2024 )
- Are you fishing and for what - do you have the correct bait? ( Mar 2024 )
- Everything we can not control might be for sale ( Feb 2024 )
- Reality will always bite ( Jan 2024 )
- Is Dec the same as Jan, but with public holidays or is it more? ( Dec 2023 )
- Do we think for ourselves or use a proxy? ( Nov 2023 )
- Do we admit our mistakes? ( Oct 2023 )
- We know you have the answers, but do you have the right questions ( Sept 2023 )
- Crooked thinking ( August 2023 )
- What is the "other side of the coin" in the current narrative ( July 2023 )
- You have a brain - Use It ( June 2023 )
- What Matters in our lives ( May 2023 )
- Egalitarianism and Inflation ( April 2023 )
- What has happened to customer service ? ( Mar 2023 )
- Are you lost in the alphabet soup yet? ( Feb 2023 )
- After midnight and ? ( Jan 2023 )
- The drovers dog vs the expert ( Dec 2022 )
- Facts no longer appear to matter ( Nov 2022 )
- Be your own customer - Test and Verify - ( Oct 2022 )
- You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality ( Sept 2022 )
- When NO means NO ( Aug 2022 )
- Too many projects are failing - WHY? ( July 2022 )
- What defines "Value" ( June 2022 )
- Back is Front and Front is Back - the new logic ( May 2022 )
- What if we had an election in our business ( Apr 2022 )
- Who is in charge and why ( Mar 2022 )
- Second verse, same as the first ( Feb 2022 )
- Who's black box do you trust ( January 2022 )
- The answer is still 42 ( December 2021 )
- Do we have principles ? ( November 2021 )
- Hell YES, we should ? ( October 2021 )
- When do we take responsibility? ( September 2021 )
- Truth and Trust ( August 2021 )
- Have we lost the plot? ( July 2021 )
- The elephants has not moved for years. ( June 2021 )
- Do we scream or keep silent ( May 2021 )
- Why innovation has a high failure rate. ( Apr 2021 )
- Better late than never - True or false ? ( Mar 2021 )
- "They deem him their worst enemy, who tells them the truth" - Plato ( Feb 2021 )
- What has changed, and what has remained the same ( Jan 2021 )
- Is what I am doing, or about to do, getting us closer to our objectives? ( Dec 2020 )
- One horse race ? ( Nov 2020 )
- Ooops. Let's do that again ( Oct 2020 )
- Blind acceptance of rules, breeds sheep ( Sep 2020 )
- Ignorance drives Fear, drives Behaviour. ( Aug 2020 )
- Simplicity is not easy ( July 2020 )
- Normalization of new Habits ( June 2020 )
- Small things can cause big problems ( May 2020 )
- Solutions are easy, courage is not ( Apr 2010 )
- Reality bites! ( Mar 2020 )
- Who's ego is driving this project? ( Feb 2020 )
- Not a New year, rather Another year ( Jan 2020 )
- Change, do we love it or hate it ? ( Dec 2019 )
- Group formations based on habits ( Nov 2019 )
- Perpetual motion ( Oct 2019 )
- The spoken word ( Sept 2019 )
- Fake news and Fake numbers, now what? ( Aug 2019 )
- Imagination vs Knowledge ( July 2019 )
- What is possible ! ( June 2019 )
- Are we prepared to learn ? ( May 2019 )
- People Matter, everything else follows ( April 2019 )
- You cannot listen, while you are talking ( Mar 2019 )
- 99 Bottles of beer on the wall ( Feb 2019 )
- Rules, Regulations, Processes and Procedures ( Jan 2019 )
- Santa Claus and the Magic bullet ( Dec 2018 )
- Hope is not a strategy ( Nov 2018 )
- Simplicity ( Oct 2018 )
- Who decides ? ( Sept 2018 )
- The words we use matter ( Aug 2018 )
- Is the answer is a definite maybe ? ( July 2018 )
- What business are you in ? ( June 2018 )
- Yes BUT - we are different ( May 2018 )
- When the marketing message becomes "Fake News" ( April 2018 )
- What have we changed this year and why ! ( March 2018 )
- Are we chasing the Easter bunny ( Feb 2018 )
- Resolutions vs Purpose ( Jan 2018 )
- 2 + 2 is 4 - Really ! ( Dec 2017 )
- So you still believe in Father Xmas ( November 2017 )
- The answer really is 42 ( October 2017 )
- Learned Ignorance - the impact ( September 2017 )
- Hand-signals in the dark ( August 2017 )
- 100 mt dash wearing gumboots ( July 2017 )
- What a spider can teach us about our business ( June 2017 )
- Co-operation to Innovation ( May 2017 )
- Little people get it, what is our problem? ( Apr 2017 )
- Why History matters ( Mar 2017 )
- The adjacent possible - Stuart Kauffman ( Feb 2017 )
- The distraction of future potential ( Jan 2017 )
- Why projects and governments continue to fail ( Dec 2016 )
- Communication bubbles and the silos of indifference ( Nov 2016 )
- Morals, Ethics and Principles - why they matter. ( Oct 2016 )
- The normalization of relevance - ( Sept 2016 )
- How and when do we challenge ourselves ? ( Aug 2016 )
- That little bit more ( July 2016 )
- George Orwell is alive, do you promote doublespeak ? ( June 2016 )
- Yes.... Communications again - How good are we at this ! - ( May 2016 )
- Apathy and Ignorance - surely not us ! - ( Apr 2016 )
- Is the grass always greener on "the Other Side" - ( Mar 2016 )
- The further backwards you can look the further forward you can see - Winston Churchill ( Feb 2016 )
- Why people believe January is a bad month for business ( Jan 2016 )
- We know you can, but do you? ( Dec 2015 )
- How much do you invest in yourself ? ( Nov 2015 )
- Customer Service - What Customer Service? ( Oct 2015 )
- Learned ignorance - why this is still happening ( Sept 2015 )
- Somebody should do something, we hear people say -
- Who is this somebody they are waiting for? ( August 2015 )
- New Financial year - so what ? ( July 2015 )
- Stepping stones, make your own as part of designing your future. ( June 2015 )
- Markers in the sandpit - how people behave in groups and why ( May 2015 )
- Why big organisations fail at project management ( Apr 2015 )
- Where the millions go - how large consulting firms waste your money ( Mar 2015 )
- Real teamwork - putting egos to the side for successful project outcomes ( Feb 2015 )
- Breaking out of patterns that are bringing down your business ( Jan 2015 )
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