Our team was one of the first outside of the US to grab the idea of creating a "mini-TED" of our own - I think we were event number 59 in the World. Since then well over twenty thousand of such gatherings, big and small,...
So much of what passes for “innovation” is essentially stuck on the same tracks as ever — merely doing more of the same, just faster or cheaper. That is not quite enough, any more, given that radical new solutions are required in virtually every area of...
The “sudden” and “unprecedented” river of change in which we are swimming is anything but sudden and unprecedented. The only thing that has changed is the pace of the flow. “Capitalism is the midst of an epochal transformation from its previous model to a new one...
The father of strategic management, Igor Ansoff, saw identification of weak signals and appropriate response to them as key components of strategy. Coming from a perspective of analysis (he was, after all, a mathematician) he defined a pattern to such identification and response. The essential...
(A guest blog post at Amati & Associates. Education needs rethinking, from the ground up, and fast. Look at how a country educates its students and its adults, and it will be a fair clue as to that country's likely future success. A new guest...
To download the brochure (5.8 MB PDF) click the image. It is entirely natural to feel apprehensive when faced with an auditorium (or even a room) full of people who are sitting quietly, expecting to hear something interesting, informative and even maybe entertaining. It’s therefore...