Climate change – humanity is paralysed

Sunspots, man made, sunspots, man made, believe it is ‘true’, believe it is not ‘true’, etc, gosh and this level of discussion helps us how?
For years humanity has been flummoxed by its own lack of ability to – once and for all – figure out what is happening with climate change. It is heating up, [...]

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The unbearable lightness of ’saying’

Judging young net companies by their current state and making that an immutable

“It is not the social network sites that are interesting — it is the social network itself”
This is just one of the sorts of quips I have read lately on the state of affairs on the net.
On the positive side is a basic [...]

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If it can happen in Finland it can happen anywhere

Where balanced people go hunting and not so go on a rampage…. figuring who’s who in the zoo

One month ago a student killed eight people at a school in Jokela, which is a small town about 50km from Helsinki the capital of Finland. He then killed himself, which, according to Finnish experts was what he [...]

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The pendulum swing

We are a very excitable lot, us humans.
When we come up with something new we get all gung ho about its potential and impact. Once we’ve established that it is not going to happen quite so fast then we no longer notice the changes happening around us. Is that because we became rather blaze about [...]

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Continuity vs. sustainability

Reinventing to survive
2007 seems to be the year that those who spent years on sustainability [environmental] and seemed to get very little public attention have finally been given a small thank you for their efforts. The spotlight is on climate change.
To sustain a business over changes in people inside and outside the organization, cultures, [...]

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Packaging frustrations

Symptoms of what problem?
Just in the last few years I have encountered numerous problems with packaging and I do wonder why it is so hard to think it through and make it easy.
1/ Toothpaste is packaged mostly [one major well known brand in Oz anyway] in carton tubes, which hide the look of the tube [...]

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Connected world impact on management

The more ‘connected’ we are the less ‘connected at the hip’ we need to be – potentially only applies to work….
On the 23rd of May I gave a short presentation on ‘Connected World’ to CSC media invitees in Switzerland. The presentation touched on eight key trends in the connected world; things like presence and location, [...]

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Competing in a Connected World

Do or die
An enterprise can consider a few alternative pathways as to how they respond to the technology induced changes. The enterprise can decide to create waves by defining their own way to leverage the technologies. Another possibility is to ride the waves others have created. Or the enterprise can crash some waves. The last [...]

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