“In any case, the days of borrowing much more than can be paid back to support excess consumption, by unproductive people, are coming to...

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet Storytellers command power. A...

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but...

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” — George Bernard Shaw Making people laugh is not...

“Stories are the communal currency of humanity.” – Tahir Shah Stories can lift us Welcome to part five of the storytelling series, with...

"The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." – Carly Fiorina Data is the start of the story not the story...

“The narrative is the set of assumptions the press believes in, possibly without even knowing that it believes in them". - from Stephen...

“ After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world .” -- Philip Pullman A famous and...

“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.” — Yuval Noah Harari Is the...

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Unknown (often attributed to...

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“People care a great deal more about appearance and reputation than about reality.” - Jonathan Haidt , The Righteous Mind Are beliefs the...

“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” - Albert Einstein Where to go next? It feels in the day that Amazon can get a product to...

Blaming others is a common response to not feeling happy Too good to be true usually means too good to be true." – Richard Branson We...

This is the book cover This week, I have not been able to spend as much time writing as I would have liked to, and that is largely...

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - Robert Kennedy The...

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”  – Bruce Lee Outsize outputs come from a small group in inputs. If...

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It's time to have a grown up conversation around free speech... What's the real story of free speech today? Free speech was back in the...

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker If someone had...

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." – Frank Crane We need to talk about...

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."  – Lao Tzu My biology teacher used to joke, "A pessimist is a man...

Bs is everywhere. We know what it is when we see it, but how do we define it, spot it and avoid it? Today's blogs takes the smelly tour...

"The plural of anecdote is misinformation" - Dr. Jonathan Stea Did a policy work? Voters are in the mood for radical policies. Radical...