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No, I haven’t got that backwards.  Right now, the world is looking pretty grey.  There are clouds massing everywhere you look, inflation, material sho...

Last week I wrote about how quickly risks that we were not expecting could become destroyers of countries and corporations.  It’s a topic that we at D...

If a week is a long time in politics, then six months is a lifetime for business leaders.  As someone who aspires to be a #futurologist , I save surve...

Playing Bananagram's Cobra Paw is a lot of fun.  It's designed for 10 year olds but seems to bring out the child in all ages. At Defy Expectations we ...

As the business environment gets more and more difficult optimising productivity is increasingly important.  You cannot afford to waste any time on pr...

I live not far from the BMW plant in Oxford.  As you drove past the entrance a couple of years ago the road was lined with trucks from all over Europe...

Leaders are always being urged to think about the future.  What can disrupt your business, what new technology/competitors/market is coming to disrupt...

For the last few months my morning run has become rather hazardous because our local swimming pool is putting in a ground-source heat pump that will h...

All through the pandemic I have been talking to people who are stressed and exhausted by the pressures of their job, their relationships, home schooli...

I used to laugh at my mother, who all her adult life stockpiled candles and tinned food and needles and thread, “because you couldn’t get them in the ...

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the six skills that leaders would need for the future.  One of these is risk management.  Looking at today...

When things get bad at work, when there is no communication, when there is no let up in the pressure, you often hear the comment “we are just being tr...