Regular Columnists
Dan Bobinski | 21 Aug 2008

Positive thinking: does it really get results?

The idea that positive thinking can affect our lives for the better has been gaining momentum over the past 80 years, and even more so recently. So does the concept work? I dare say it does - within reason.
Janet Howd | 18 Aug 2008

If you want your voice to carry, carry it well.

If you want o know how to make your voice carry to an audience, the first thing you need to work on isn't vocal at all. It's your stance. And here's how to develop it.
Andy Hanselman | 24 Jun 2008

Keep on keeping on

When I'm asked how organisations can create devoted customers, I reply "just keep doing great things to them". It seesm obvious, but creating 'devoted' customers is about consistently doing things that make customers feel valued.
Peter Vajda | 18 Aug 2008

My lawn mower made me do it!

As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, "an event is neither good nor bad; only thinking makes it so." Everything that irritates us about inanimate objects can lead us to an understanding of ourselves – because nothing can make us feel what we don't want to feel.
Edward de Bono | 11 Aug 2008

Creativity: perceptual shift needed

Edward de Bono explains how our very practical obsession with truth makes us anxious to pick on one perception and ignore others, and why that needs to change through creativity
Charles Helliwell | 07 Aug 2008

What gives a business its personality?

Whenever an organisation makes changes, they inevitably affect the behaviour patterns of its various stakeholders. But they don't necessarily change its personality.
Bob Selden | 01 Aug 2008

Tour de Farce or Team de Force?

Do you manage a team or a group? The distinction is an important one, because there's no point in trying to develop a team ethos amongst a group of people who do no real need to work cooperatively together.
Wayne Turmel | 20 Aug 2008

I'm a GOOF Not a MOOF

I work from home now and happy to do so. I'm not technically mobile, but I am "gladly out of office" - which makes me a GOOF, an acronym both unfortunate and true. Because having a workplace that ISN'T the same as your abode was not without its charms.
Myra White | 11 Aug 2008

Mastering failure

Failure is part of being human. But what distinguishes superstars is that while they make the same amount of wrong turns as everyone else, they don't let their failures interfere with their pursuit of success.
Robert Heller | 11 Aug 2008

Management styles: why things go wrong

Robert Heller discusses how, faced with rising complexity, managers make the situation worse with overly complicated reactions
Max McKeown | 24 Jul 2008

Understand change to make changes

To make improvements you will have to make changes. But to make successful changes you need to understanding why change happens, how it starts, continues, and stops.
Jurgen Wolff | 18 Jun 2008

Brainstorm

We're always told to think outside the box, but often we're not thinking far enough out of it. Here are some ideas to help you expanding the boundaries of what you will allow yourself to think.