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Meeting behaviour in a recession

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Leadership

As a practitioner in medialand, I learned the value of creative behaviours – ways to open up thinking and new ideas in order to develop better products.  I particularly admired a book called Sticky Wisdom by ?What If!, a group of consultants who – while challenged with punctuation – cut through the fog regarding innovation.  Sticky [...]

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Libraries are needed now more than ever

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Zeitgeist

Camden Council in north London, where I live, is considering changing the ethos of its libraries – to allow people to bring in food and drink and use their mobile phones.  The intention is to make libraries more appealing to young people. As both a library user and the parent of a young person, this [...]

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Thoughts on getting through turbulent times

October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Managing oneself

When I talk to people in the financial sector, I understand the meaning of the current turmoil being a crisis unprecedented in our lifetimes.  The experience of redundancy is  unlike that any of us are likely to have come across before.  With banking institutions disappearing at a rate of knots, others laying off staff in [...]

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