Failing Forward
If President Obama’s ‘Leadership and Management’ qualities weren’t enough for this Leadership and Management blog to applaud him, his embrace of failure and all of the positive qualities that go...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the Foreigners
Don’t blame the foreigners. Immigrants have always been a fundamental part of the ‘American Dream’. And yet, with the Dream crumbling in so many respects, many Americans have been tempted to look...
View ArticleStrategy of the Void
“Deny Them Targets: The Strategy of the Void. Remove any targets you have for your opponents. Do not create a front or make your front so broad that attacking it attacks their base. No targets will...
View ArticleHeads I win, Tails you lose
Leadership is great. Leadership is about upside. A vision of synergy where the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Such aspiration is certainly a possibility for government. The moon...
View ArticleUnwarranted Optimism
American Politicians are doing their best to shake up the cultural can of soda pop to froth up as many Dream Bubbles as possible these days. The problem is, as Scott Adams artfully describes his...
View ArticleWaking Up the American Dream
The Onion celebrates Election Day with a tongue-in-cheek look at the death of a dream. Mitt Romney’s dream of one day becoming President. The fact is that now Obama’s dream of re-election is also...
View ArticleFailure Budgets
One of my favourite all-time Onion stories – “Nation Begs Its Smart People to Fix Everything Now” – seems to be a bit of life imitating the comic arts this week as the USA elected a couple of the...
View ArticleJumping off the Cliff
One solution that will utterly fail to please everyone is the resolution on the ‘fiscal cliff’ dominating the post-election headlines. I am optimistic that the new Congress and continuing...
View ArticleBeing Right There
“The thing that I truly believe is that the overwhelming majority of the country is not this conflict-driven group of ideologues. It just isn’t. And that ultimately always wins out. Because no...
View ArticleBracing U-Turns
You don’t want to get into wreck with a Bentley, either on the road or in the marketplace. But according voluble pundit of all things motorised and irritating, Jeremy Clarkson (his Sunday Times...
View ArticleDon’t Blame the Foreigners
Don’t blame the foreigners. Immigrants have always been a fundamental part of the ‘American Dream’. And yet, with the Dream crumbling in so many respects, many Americans have been tempted to look...
View ArticleStrategy of the Void
“Deny Them Targets: The Strategy of the Void. Remove any targets you have for your opponents. Do not create a front or make your front so broad that attacking it attacks their base. No targets will...
View ArticleHeads I win, Tails you lose
Leadership is great. Leadership is about upside. A vision of synergy where the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Such aspiration is certainly a possibility for government. The moon...
View ArticleUnwarranted Optimism
American Politicians are doing their best to shake up the cultural can of soda pop to froth up as many Dream Bubbles as possible these days. The problem is, as Scott Adams artfully describes his...
View ArticleWaking Up the American Dream
The Onion celebrates Election Day with a tongue-in-cheek look at the death of a dream. Mitt Romney’s dream of one day becoming President. The fact is that now Obama’s dream of re-election is also...
View ArticleFailure Budgets
One of my favourite all-time Onion stories – “Nation Begs Its Smart People to Fix Everything Now” – seems to be a bit of life imitating the comic arts this week as the USA elected a couple of the...
View ArticleJumping off the Cliff
One solution that will utterly fail to please everyone is the resolution on the ‘fiscal cliff’ dominating the post-election headlines. I am optimistic that the new Congress and continuing...
View ArticleBeing Right There
“The thing that I truly believe is that the overwhelming majority of the country is not this conflict-driven group of ideologues. It just isn’t. And that ultimately always wins out. Because no...
View ArticleBracing U-Turns
You don’t want to get into wreck with a Bentley, either on the road or in the marketplace. But according voluble pundit of all things motorised and irritating, Jeremy Clarkson (his Sunday Times...
View ArticleBoring and Unsexy
The election season has officially kicked off on both sides of the Atlantic today. USA held its first primaries for the upcoming mid-terms, and the UK General Election is now at least exactly one...
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