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Topics are tailored to suit your needs and below are a some recent topics.

• There is no Truth without the context of history ( Nov 2024 ) 

• What motivates discussions around the water cooler? - ( Oct 2024 )

• The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin   -  ( Sept 2024 )

• The destruction of human personality ( Aug 2024 )

• Many years ago IBM had a simple slogan - THINK - then what happened? ( July 2024 )
• Politicians and business leaders never lie !! ( June 2024 )
• Activity vs Progress ( May 2024 )
• Please explain - new words such as "dispositive" ( Apr 2024 )
• Are you fishing and for what - do you have the correct bait? ( Mar 2024 )
• Everything we can not control might be for sale ( Feb 2024 )
• Reality will always bite ( Jan 2024 )
• Is Dec the same as Jan, but with public holidays or is it more? ( Dec 2023 )
• Do we think for ourselves or use a proxy? ( Nov 2023 )
• Do we admit our mistakes? ( Oct 2023 )
• We know you have the answers, but do you have the right questions ( Sept 2023 )
• Crooked thinking ( August 2023 )
• What is the "other side of the coin" in the current narrative ( July 2023 ) 
• You have a brain - Use It ( June 2023 )
• What Matters in our lives ( May 2023 )
• Egalitarianism and Inflation ( April 2023 )
• What has happened to customer service ? ( Mar 2023 )
• Are you lost in the alphabet soup yet?  ( Feb 2023 )
• After midnight and ? ( Jan 2023 )
• The drovers dog vs the expert ( Dec 2022 ) 
• Facts no longer appear to matter ( Nov 2022 ) 
• Be your own customer - Test and Verify - ( Oct 2022 )
• You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality  ( Sept 2022 )
• When NO means NO ( Aug 2022 )
• Too many projects are failing - WHY? ( July 2022 )
• What defines "Value" ( June 2022 )
• Back is Front and Front is Back - the new logic ( May 2022 )
• What if we had an election in our business ( Apr 2022 )
• Who is in charge and why ( Mar 2022 )
• Second verse, same as the first ( Feb 2022 )
• Who's black box do you trust ( January 2022 )
• The answer is still 42  ( December 2021 )
• Do we have principles ? ( November 2021 )
• Hell YES, we should ? ( October 2021 )
• When do we take responsibility? ( September 2021 ) 
• Truth and Trust ( August 2021 )
• Have we lost the plot? ( July 2021 )
• The elephants has not moved for years. ( June 2021 )
• Do we scream or keep silent ( May 2021 )
• Why innovation has a high failure rate. ( Apr 2021 )
• Better late than never -  True or false ? ( Mar 2021 )
• "They deem him their worst enemy, who tells them the truth" - Plato ( Feb 2021 )
• What has changed, and what has remained the same ( Jan 2021 )
• Is what I am doing, or about to do, getting us closer to our objectives?  ( Dec 2020 )
• One horse race ? ( Nov 2020 )
• Ooops. Let's do that again ( Oct 2020 )
• Blind acceptance of rules, breeds sheep ( Sep 2020 )
• Ignorance drives Fear, drives Behaviour. ( Aug 2020 )
• Simplicity is not easy ( July 2020 )
• Normalization of new Habits ( June 2020 )
• Small things can cause big problems ( May 2020 )
• Solutions are easy, courage is not ( Apr 2010 )
• Reality bites! ( Mar 2020 )
• Who's ego is driving this project? ( Feb 2020 )
• Not a New year, rather Another year ( Jan 2020 )
• Change, do we love it or hate it ? ( Dec 2019 )
• Group formations based on habits ( Nov 2019 )
• Perpetual motion ( Oct 2019 )
• The spoken word ( Sept 2019 )
• Fake news and Fake numbers, now what? ( Aug 2019 )
• Imagination vs Knowledge ( July 2019 )
• What is possible  ! ( June 2019 )
• Are we prepared to learn ? ( May 2019 )
• People Matter, everything else follows ( April 2019 )
• You cannot listen, while you are talking ( Mar 2019 )
• 99 Bottles of beer on the wall ( Feb 2019 )
• Rules, Regulations, Processes and Procedures ( Jan 2019 )
• Santa Claus and the Magic bullet ( Dec 2018 )
• Hope is not a strategy ( Nov 2018 )
• Simplicity ( Oct 2018 )
• Who decides ? ( Sept 2018 )
• The words we use matter ( Aug 2018 )
• Is the answer is a definite maybe ? ( July 2018 )
• What business are you in ? ( June 2018 )
• Yes BUT - we are different ( May 2018 )
• When the marketing message becomes "Fake News" ( April 2018 )
• What have we changed this year and why ! ( March 2018 )
• Are we chasing the Easter bunny ( Feb 2018 )
• Resolutions vs Purpose ( Jan 2018 )
• 2 + 2 is 4 - Really ! ( Dec 2017 )
• So you still believe in Father Xmas  ( November 2017 )
• The answer really is 42 ( October 2017 )
• Learned Ignorance - the impact ( September 2017 )
• Hand-signals in the dark ( August 2017 )
• 100 mt dash wearing gumboots ( July 2017 )
• What a spider can teach us about our business ( June 2017 )
• Co-operation to Innovation ( May 2017 )
• Little people get it, what is our problem? ( Apr 2017 )
• Why History matters ( Mar 2017 )
• The adjacent possible - Stuart Kauffman ( Feb 2017 ) 
• The distraction of future potential ( Jan 2017 )
• Why projects and governments continue to fail ( Dec 2016 )
• Communication bubbles and the silos of indifference ( Nov 2016 )
• Morals, Ethics and Principles - why they matter. ( Oct 2016 )
• The normalization of relevance - ( Sept 2016 )
• How and when do we challenge ourselves ? ( Aug 2016 )
• That little bit more ( July 2016 )
• George Orwell is alive, do you promote doublespeak ?  ( June 2016 ) 
• Yes.... Communications again - How good are we at this ! - ( May 2016 )
• Apathy and Ignorance - surely not us !  - ( Apr 2016 ) 
• Is the grass always greener on "the Other Side" - ( Mar 2016 )
• The further backwards you can look the further forward you can see - Winston Churchill ( Feb 2016 )
• Why people believe January is a bad month for business ( Jan 2016 ) 
• We know you can, but do you? ( Dec 2015 )
• How much do you invest in yourself ? ( Nov 2015 )
• Customer Service - What Customer Service? ( Oct 2015 )
• Learned ignorance - why this is still happening ( Sept 2015 )
• Somebody should do something, we hear people say -
  • Who is this somebody they are waiting for? ( August 2015 )
• New Financial year - so what ? ( July 2015 )
• Stepping stones, make your own as part of designing your future. ( June 2015 )
• Markers in the sandpit - how people behave in groups and why ( May 2015 )
• Why big organisations fail at project management ( Apr 2015 )
• Where the millions go - how large consulting firms waste your money ( Mar 2015 )
• Real teamwork - putting egos to the side for successful project outcomes ( Feb 2015 )
• Breaking out of patterns that are bringing down your business ( Jan 2015 )

I always look forward to collaborating with productive individuals and companies.