I’m Not a Monkey: Keep Your Banana

Why People Leave Companies & Why Reward and Recognition Programs Don’t Work I’m not a monkey. Offering me a banana or threatening me with a pointed stick will not change my behaviour. Us humans are not simple creatures. How and why we behave is complex, Read More …

The Day I switched Off My Left Brain

This post was inspired by a recent Ted Talk that I watched titled: ‘My Stroke of Insight’. This video is the story of  brain scientist, Jill Bolte Taylor who had a stroke which temporarily disabled her left brain creating a surprising and astonishing experience. I Read More …

Is Human Potential Contagious?

How is it possible that humans keep breaking world records and when, if ever, will this stop? Surely the fellow who started the ‘Guniess Book of Records’ saw his business as a small 10 year investment documenting the records in human achievement. Today, I’m sure that Read More …

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

…the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the Read More …

Feeling Restless? Is Quantum Physics to Blame?

I heard a story recently. It went like this. When Columbus sailed in to America for the first time, the Native American Indians did not see his ship. Actually it wasn’t that they simply ‘didn’t’ see it, they could not see it. This is because, not only Read More …