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I recently spent an hour chatting to a very busy and successful businessman.  He is running a profitable and rapidly growing business.  It is a venture that he started and is very close to his heart.  Not only is it close to his heart but he is very much at the heart of it too.  […][...] read more » Growing pains or … Sometimes avoiding is a decision is the same as making one…

Microsoft are about to introduce their most important product for years, Windows 8.  It is a new, common platform/interface to be used by phones, PC’s and tablets, so that users have a common experience regardless of platform.  They are taking a leaf out of Apple’s book in this and there is little wrong in learning […][...] read more » Technology–master or servant?

I was listening to an interesting discussion yesterday about the nature of technology and change, which are inextricably linked.  They were describing the way that technology was changing our world, uniting people, speeding up communication etc.; all very familiar sentiments till you realised these words were describing the introduction of the telegraph over 100 years […][...] read more » Man and machines

The net impact of Apple and Google taking each other on in the courts has not seemed to affect the public and their buying decisions.  Android phones are being activated at a rate of 1.3m per day!  The Samsung S3 outsold the iPhone 4s in the US in August, though admittedly this was just before […][...] read more » Apple and Google: the result of their patent wars

An Israeli inventor, Izhar Gafni, has succeeded in making a bike out of the very thing that normal bikes come in… the box!  The bike is not just theoretical either, it will begin production in the next month or so.  It will cost around $9 to make and can be bought for around $20, which […][...] read more » A bike made out of… cardboard?!?

Peter Chou, CEO of phone maker HTC, according to Bloomberg, recently sent out an email to employees complaining that “we have people in meetings and talking all the time but without decision, strategic direction or sense of urgency,” and he also said that when HTC employees did decide to do something, they “either didn’t do […][...] read more » Cultural lessons from HTC

This is a fabulous video which explains the importance of purpose and meaning in getting people to apply themselves.  Compare and contrast these messages with what Microsoft do – read this article for the full story – which is meant to ensure that they only hire the best brains and that they work well but […][...] read more » What motivates us?

From the procession of the torch round the country where 8,000 people each carried it for 8,000 miles, and most people were within 5 miles of it at some point  (I personally have had it cross my path 3 times) to the opening ceremony, the organisers have tried to engage the population in a feeling […][...] read more » London Olympics–lessons on Change

The Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nursing have announced today that simply agreeing to use one single, common patient bedside health chart (instead of the more than 100 currently used) across the country could save up to 6,000 lives a year!  It seems amazing that in the 21st century this is […][...] read more » The NHS could save 6,000 lives a year with one small change!

I was out walking on Sunday, and as we trekked uphill through mud and cutting sedge grass, I mused out loud “Why do we always go uphill?”  It certainly felt that way, even at the end of the walk, but my ever wise companion said “You just don’t notice the downhills”.  I paused and considered […][...] read more » Always uphill?