Category Archives: Reflections

Survival is a tough business and there is a steep gradient between doing well at it and teetering on the edge. Continue reading →

I had decided to write a blog on how much easier it was to make certain types of mistakes as a group; the types of errors that individuals seldom make but groups seem particularly prone to. I was doing this … Continue reading →

Really bad business is, by definition, a transaction that looks exactly like good business. In many cases, bad business looks better than most of the business that you do! Continue reading →

When you have a good idea that turns out to deliver real value your natural instinct when the resulting initiative comes to an end should be to recycle it. Recycling is a very powerful concept in business if it is … Continue reading →

Your blogger was in Nigeria a week ago, trying to think above the incessant wheeze-choke-rattle of the neighbours’ generators, which kick into life every evening to compensate for the appalling absence of state-generated power. Perhaps ‘think’ is too rich a … Continue reading →

While doing some research on usability as part of a review of a Computer User Interface I happened upon thousands of pages of what looked like complete gibberish. Then I noticed a pattern; the gibberish repeated itself! What did this … Continue reading →

Her jaw worked with mechanical efficiency on the wad of gum in her cheek. Every now and again she would pause in her chewing and push it out between her teeth to show the world the extent to which she … Continue reading →

November’s blog comes from seat 13A on the early morning flight to Manchester. It is a typical November day; cold, grey, wet and miserable. The pilot has announced that we should expect a slight delay because of the weather, but … Continue reading →