So many people are telling me that they don’t know what’s going to happen. Uncertain times. “Who knows how this will all land? Need to keep our options open.” Here’s an analogy. Imagine a race. A race where the prize is big. The winning rider will be made for life....

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...