Organisations

  • Sticking to their side of the bargain
    (or 'The U.S. Debt Deal and Your Divorce') You come to an agreement with the other party but you don’t trust they will stick to it. How do you make sure they do? Well, the U.S. debt negotiations broke down last week and there are some interesting lessons you can...
  • Follow up on creativity
    Just thought I’d follow up on my last article on innovation. Perhaps I was a bit too harsh on business people who are uncomfortable with the creative process. I came across a lovely description recently which which very humorously brings out its painful nature. It was on the website of...
  • Is creativity the most important business skill?
    I had a bit of a clear out recently and came across an old magazine, a special 75th anniversary edition of Business Week, and I had to sit down and read it again, as you do, because the whole edition was dedicated to the subject of innovation. They had looked...
  • Negotiation Mastery
      Update: Aug 2012. The book is now available on Amazon, hope you like it! I am in the middle of writing a book called Negotiation Mastery. The idea is that it gives you the current understanding of negotiation best practice, as drawn from the literature, and then it goes...
  • What is Systems Thinking?
    Systems thinking is a bit of a buzzword and often people wonder what it actually means and how does it have any practical uses. I thought I would write a short(ish) article on it, starting off with a few illustrations of systems thinking in real life. The annoying shower You...