Leadership Guidance
Do You Know Why Startups Really Fail?
Like love, a great idea isn’t enough. Image made by the author with Night Cafe and Canva Pro. This is written for your good, not to pull you down. Yes, you, for who isn’t a dreamer of the dream of wild success and immense wealth from a killer idea, whether in papads or neural networks?… Read the rest
Why IBM’s Splitting Up Makes Me Forlorn and Hopeful
The existential threat to my sense of belonging to something grand and good. Image made by the author in Canva Pro ‘My granddad worked for IBM’ is what I’ve imagined my grandkids telling their friends. It has the cachet for me of ‘My granddad worked for NASA’ or (unfortunately, due to the slowness of human…
… Read the restWhat is the Circular Economy & How Can We Enable It?
How to prosper in harmony with nature. Free image from flickr.com I was reading my print subscription of National Geographic (yes, it still exists) a few weeks ago and something in it got through sceptical old me. It made me think that: The combined brainpower of my 929 connections on LinkedIn is enough to power…
… Read the restPost-COVID Action 5/5: Practise ‘The Incredible Lightness of Being’ Human
The coronavirus problem is an opportunity — to reverse human havoc. Free image from Unsplash.com Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, tens of thousands of years ago, humans were separated into tribes. Then a few millennia ago, they clumped together into villages, towns, cities and states. A… Read the rest
Post-COVID Action 4/5: Get More Out of Life by Working from Both Home and Workplace
The coronavirus problem is an opportunity — to reverse human havoc. Image made by the author in Canva Pro Wouldn’t you like a better work-life balance? One way to have it is by not wholly reverting to working en masse and full time in offices, factories and other workplaces, once the coronavirus pandemic is over. Let… Read the rest
Post-COVID Action 2/5: Morph the Automobile Industry into Public Transport Industry
The coronavirus problem is an opportunity — to arrest human havoc. Free image from Wikimedia Commons Why do we need private powered vehicles at all? During the global coronavirus pandemic lockdown, the use of private vehicles has dropped dramatically, besides that of flights, trains, buses and cabs.… Read the rest
Post-COVID Action 1/5: Convert Offices to Apartments Globally
The coronavirus problem is an opportunity — to arrest human havoc. Free image from Unsplash.com If there ever was a problem we should look at as an opportunity, it is the coronavirus pandemic. It has somewhat slowed the depredations of burning fossil fuels, rampant construction and unbridled mass travel.… Read the rest