Remember the days when every motivational seminar, strategy session and change management program, began with an iceberg model? This visual was used to represent what we thought was the problem (tip of the iceberg) and of course the much bigger problem lurking beneath the surface (which we were all trying to avoid). You could use […]
I went to see the movie HER the other day. I’d been a bit ambivalent about going… on the one hand there are great reviews of the original plot line, on the other hand, a story of a man who falls in love with his computer may sound more like reality TV! Whereas most sci-fi […]
Van Morrison had a reputation for being a bully. I suppose these days you’d call it being a badass but it being 1979 the term hadn’t been coined yet. A badass commands a certain amount of respect whereas a bully just engenders fear. I am in the lobby of a hotel in Amsterdam where […]
Halloween – the amuse bouche of the holiday season is upon us. Shop windows have been transformed (Orange and black is the new black). Funny things are appearing on restaurant menus… well, just the same things with silly names… skeleton bones, bat wings, creepy crawly pasta. Spiders and cobwebs have become THE THING, suddenly adorning […]
If life is a Rom Com – and at times I like to indulge in this fantasy – then right about now would be the chapter where everything turns to shit. Of course, though we’re totally engaged in the drama, we know this is just a temporary state of affairs. Some amazing twist will happen […]