The One Skill
Many, many moons ago, when my son Duncan was 12, I was introduced by a colleague to a musician called Paul Ellis. It was Paul who taught Duncan and me about the one skill. And that lesson has travelled a long way with both of us. Paul Ellis composed and
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From the archives, 2014 Here I am (2014) at Cambridge, Massachusetts, visiting #Harvard and home of #HBS and staying at the #Doubletree suites by #Hilton. I have been rereading Rethinking The Network Economy by Stan #Liebovitz. He rightly argues that many of the mantra of the Internet boom period are
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From the archives: October 2008. The effect of the financial crash on brands. How has this fared?
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Paddington Mainline Station, with or without statues of that bear. Lots of platforms, lots of railway tracks, lots of points on the tracks, lots of signals, lots of trains. Several railway companies that contributed to tragedy, but certainly not the most complex or the busiest station. With my egghead business
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