Get this development technique right and your skills will move forward very fast indeed. Get this wrong and you’ll be wasting a lot of time, and probably the time of others. Some quick pointers will hopefully set you on the right road: Decide what skills or qualities...

The enemy of change is perceived certainty. Certainty is created by beliefs, though beliefs are usually disputable. No doubt believe that the world is round. Of course you are wrong in that belief. It’s not quite round, its more like spherical, and probably a little...

Last week in Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing I rashly suggested that I could weigh up an organisational setting and estimate its survival prospects. It's not a precise science (what science is?) but you can do it too if you know how. To whet your appetite...

Here is a clarion call for an independent mind, your mind. Have you noticed how powerful scientists seem to have become? Or rather, how powerful they appear to be? So much depends on my 4th Principle of Power: Perception and Reality. Let me explain. He who pays the...

Last week I have a chat with an acquaintance. Well no, not a chat, I got talked to. He got on his hobby horse on some topic that I was not particularly interested in, knew more about than he did, but he had me trapped. Without wanting to be rude of impolitic I...

A storm of epic proportions, and likely heading in your direction. You heard it here first, and while everyone is looking elsewhere. This storm, a storm the like of which you’ve never seen before, whose ferocity will sweep you off your feet and out to sea so fast...