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The problem is not the problem. The challenge is finding a way to position yourself/rearrange your environment so that the problem vanishes. When you do it right it’s like a magic trick. — Alsek dreams (@alsekdreams) October 5, 2022 Here's 'Twisdom' that might well relate to us in solution

I came across this American hospitality argot via reports of a 'lost in showbiz' incident. A talkshow host being barred from an NYC restaurant for being the rudest customer they'd ever suffered. A "tiny cretin of a man" to boot. After the publicity, a "profuse" apology followed and second chance

I recently happened across this term in relation to Marketeers' struggles to impress upon bean counters their wonderful 'effectiveness'. Principally due to speaking outside of the specific language Finance understands. Although as many a seller may ruefully attest, such hard numbered returns can often feel elusive when dealing with our

There's a pair of control mechanisms with which you're no doubt familiar. MBO (Management By Objectives) have been around a lifetime. Courtesy of (who else?) Peter Drucker in 1954. Apparently back then (new to me) aka Management By Planning. Hoping to recalibrate management from supervision to measurement. Setting 'agreed' goals

Spare a thought for Middle England. If the gender switcheroo in elected leader-unelected head of state wasn't perhaps traumatic enough, there's the late onset shock from realisation how much the twin towers of Putin invasion and China shaped lockdown closures eventually crash into their world. One manifestation of such being

Looking back I perhaps first mentioned the minefield of Front Talk in 2008. Having then learned the most fertile trio for common ground. This month, I read that four minutes of small talk can better facilitate workplace collaboration. In a round-about sort of way. Four minutes feels quite a long

The complex is simple, yet the simple is complex. That's the basis of Moravec's Paradox around AI. A robot can solve the trickiest of calculations far beyond our brains. Yet cannot master the most natural of our movements. The difficult is easy, yet the easy is difficult. A concept hitting

My recent post on our Sales tips from conditions for the arrival of political change got me thinking. Most buyers can think in terms of 'change' when they want it. But they tend to focus on the one-size-fits-all impacts of it. Rather than considering the nuances from implications of the