Work the index
The list below is deliberately dense: scan dates, titles, and excerpts quickly, then open the essay that catches the thread.
Twenty-four articles per page keep the archive moving without making each card compete for attention.
Category: Articles
Roadmap
Read with direction.
Use this category as a focused corridor, then widen the map when a related question starts pulling you into another part of the archive.
Start with foundations
When you want the personal and philosophical base of the archive, begin with the Theory of the World essays.
Cross the boundary
Most useful ideas do not stay in one lane. Move sideways when a theme needs another lens.
Return to the whole
Step out of this category when you want the full field rather than one territory.
-
It Is a New Life
Nina Simone is a great artist and she sings a great song saying that it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and it is new life for me. Being able to access training and education is not only a new day and a new dawn for those that are already in the workplace, but
-
The Kabbalah of Management
Management is often described as planning, organising, leading and controlling. These words are useful, but they can make management sound flatter than it…
-
Language of Emotion
Emotion is something that we are all faced with every day. It really is not an aspect that has an effective language and its study is complex. It is partly…
-
Renewing Self
Sunday 9 December 2012 We are all challenged to be more and do more every day. This phenomenal pressure of our time comes from the sheer ability of a person…
-
Achieving Financial Freedom
For all of us financial freedom seems an insurmountable challenge. How can I ever become free of the things that I need that I have to fund with large loans…
-
Invent and Brand Yourself
Proust said that the real journey of discovery is not to see new lands but to see with new eyes.
-
End of the Year Syndrome
As we are getting closer to the end of the year there is a great many demands being placed on us.
-
Vision, Faith and Service – Three Ideas to Rediscover
Wednesday 31 October 2012 Much has been said about vision – but do we really practice it. Have you sat down and created a visual image of something you…
-
How to Understanding and Communicating Quality
Quality is often defined as conformance to expectation. What often gets lost is that quality affects all aspects of operations and impacts every aspect of…
-
How to
Quality is often defined as conformance to expectation. What often gets lost is that quality affects all aspects of operations and impacts every aspect of…
-
Information Accounting Up the Big Data Tree
The information deluge is real. It is all around us. More servers are spitting out more information as the internet is growing and we are all collecting more…
-
Science and Spirituality
Sunday 21 October 2012 I came across this article I wrote in 2004 and never published online.
-
Boldly Go Around the World Experiencing a World of Innovation
Thursday 11 October 2012 Somewhere around 200 BC, a Greek scientist named Aristarchus suggested that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not, as was the…
-
Creating a Personal Balanced Scorecard
Thursday 11 October 2012 We all procrastinate. One of the best ways to get past this is to organise yourself, discover your purpose and develop clear…
-
Competence to Skills Mapping
Competence is not the same as skill. This distinction matters because organisations often confuse the two. They list skills, build training catalogues, send…
-
FutureSkills and FutureTrends
It is so easy to get stuck in today and not look at tomorrow. The reality that is unfolding around us is that of a fast globalising world in which our daily actions are creating change on an unprecedented scale. There are some significant patterns of change that is emerging globally and that will characterise
-
Developing Mental Toughness and Agility
Mental toughness is the ability to stay steady under pressure. Mental agility is the ability to adapt your thinking when the situation changes. Together they become a practical discipline for modern work.
-
The Urgency Effect
Sunday 20 November 2011 As a manager I am fascinated by the concept of urgency. I am very good at creating it – but also fascinated by other people that live…
-
Practical Life Skills
Practical life skills are not grand theories. They are the small disciplines that help a person live with more clarity, dignity and usefulness. They do not…
-
Cost of Factoring
Factoring is often presented as a simple answer to cash flow pressure. The business has invoices. Customers are slow to pay. The factor advances cash against…
-
Measuring goals
A practical article and checklist for testing whether a goal is clear, observable, relevant, resourced, influenceable and useful as a management instrument.
-
Reforms Are Ultimately Concerned with
Reforms are ultimately concerned with more efficient and/or equitable use of resources, goods, and services.
-
Public participation must trigger change
Public participation is often treated as a meeting. A notice is issued. People attend. Officials present. Community members speak. Minutes are taken. A…
-
15 Critical Components of Implementing Career Clusters
Career clusters are useful when they help learners connect education with meaningful work. The real implementation challenge is building the leadership, partnerships, curriculum, assessment and workplace learning system that makes those pathways real.