Book review

We face challenges every day, each one taking their toll on energy levels and the ability to respond and react positively. Dr Alan Watkins argues that “what we feel has a far bigger impact on what we do than thinking does.” We simply don’t understand what’s influencing performance in the first place. Watkins says it’s time

Using data to manage your staff If you’re a manager, you’re probably sensing that the world gets a little faster every day, and the degree of uncertainty is accelerating. The techniques and tools you’re using to manage your people can barely keep up with the challenges you’re now facing. The sad part according to the

What skills do you need for the future? We moved from lizard brains to monkey brains, to a human brain and now we are moving to the 4th brain, which is Google, the cloud, Wikipedia, the Technium. A shared artificial brain. We are linking biology with machines, and machines with humans. We are moving from

We have a lot of clients in the financial sector. So we are always on the lookout for new thinking about the financial sector. Brett King, the author of Bank 2.0 and Bank 3.0 is a guru in this field. When he speaks, you should listen. Breaking banks He wrote a book, “Breaking banks, the

Doing is the new black. Kevin Kelly Came across Kevin Kelly with  “DO! The pursuit of xceptional execution”. Then realised he was Irish and I had seen him speak at an SFA conference a few years ago. I remember that day vividly. Not only because of Kevin’s talk but because of another speaker that day, Gerry

Drucker is to management, what John Maynard Keynes is to economics or W. Edwards Deming to quality, Drucker As Financial Times reviewer Simon London put it best “The biggest challenge for any management writer is to find something to say that management guru Peter Drucker has not already said better.” Charles Handy agrees. “Think of any

Get on with it. A friend of mine is an imagineer, philosopher and strategic consultant. Every now and then he does Marcus Aurelius sessions. I was at one of those and I can honestly say it changed my life. This books could change yours. Stoicism as an operating system Marcus Aurelius is part of the

How do you plan for a world that is in constant flux? We are getting that question a lot. Should you plan at all? What timeframe do you plan for? And how do you make an organisation fluid enough to respond to constant change and volatility? BIG questions. No easy answers. Do you have a