The Occupy Movement - what could, should or must we, entrepreneurs and management consultants take from it?

What may have seemed a temporary flare of social insanity to observers seems still very much alive since its inception on September 17, 2011. As with most activism, the movement divided a global audience in five camps: those who don't know, who don't care, who don't understand, who oppose and, of course, those who support.

Not surprising, ...

Storytelling seems to make a slight furore among creative and innovative businesses as a means to better communicate their purpose, objectives and goals. Rapidly realising that employee attention is becoming harder to gain, forward-thinking executives are now increasingly adopting techniques used by social media platforms to get their messages across their enterprises.

What Hollywood, television and, more recently, YouTube and Facebook have known for years is now finally trickling ...

Teams that face stalemates in their innovation, problem solving and improvement efforts may suffer from Text Myopia. A solution may be to adopt new ways of thinking.

A while ago I consulted to an organization as part of a team that saw itself challenged by a number of seemingly irresolvable issues. The client's revenues and profits dwindled rapidly and drastic intervention was needed to change the trajectory bottom lines had taken. We devised a plan that could ...