The Dream Team 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am

Image source: Boleigh/Flickr I have worked with some sensational people in my lifetime. People who have motivated, inspired and confounded me. It seemed less important when I was young and focused on...

Crisis, She Stimulates 23 Aug 2013 | 04:15 am

Image source: Wikipedia Wikimedia & Wikimedia When asked if financial crisis was a distraction or a boom for inspiration, British artist David Hockney said, “inspiration, she never visits the lazy......

I'm Possible 22 Aug 2013 | 09:26 am

Einstein Nailed It 21 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am

Image source: wikimedia.org Albert Einstein once said: “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” He was right. But across the world, the art of teachi...

A Sad Day for Me Today 20 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am

Image source: pepsico.com Thirty years ago I met a tall, charismatic, young, brilliant Palestinian called Saad Abdul-Latif. He was working at Pepsi-Co in the Middle East when I joined them as Directo...

Champion Effort 19 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am

Good-bye Agony. Hello Ecstasy. Man City are back in Europe's Champions League. It's been a long time. 40 years in fact. I watched the game live in Hooligan's bar (!!!) in San Jose, Costa Rica aft...

Magazineternity 16 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am

Image source: port-magazine.com Men’s magazine Port did a cover story for its summer issue on the future of print media, describing a new golden age of magazine publishing. It created some controvers...

Game Changers 15 Aug 2013 | 05:15 am

Image source: cineatralia.com The Harvard Business Review recently highlighted the fine example of Sir Peter Jackson to describe what its authors call ‘The Innovation Mindset’. Peter is, as they say,...

Springsteen & I 14 Aug 2013 | 08:59 am

"Hope", "trust", "togetherness" are three words that many brands aspire to, but while they sit around the boardroom discussing how they might achieve this, these are words people use to describe their...

Retraining the Brain 13 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am

Image source: Ira Gelb/Flickr I freely admit I don’t have a lot of time for pessimists. I like ideas. Solutions. Ambition. Problems, to me, exist only because they haven’t been solved. The difficulty...