If there’s anything tangible that teaches us about our significance, it’s the universe. We all know it’s huge, expansive and a largely unknown ‘something’ in which we happen to exist, to many of us only known as lots of black night time darkness that’s filled with billions of stars.

It’s easy to forget that our little but precious home, which we call Earth, actually swims as a microscopic, minute clump of dirt in an ocean that’s incomprehensively large. Here’s 7 billion of us, living ...

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, ...

Following the publication of my blog The Fugitive: Samuel Gerard’s Leadership I received a considerable number of responses from friends and colleagues, either agreeing or disagreeing with my thinking that Tommy Lee Jones, in his role as US Marshal Samuel Gerard, portrayed The Perfect Leader.

I must admit that I made that statement to provoke discussions on what Perfect Leadership actually looks like and, moreover, whether it actually exists. It’s the same ...

When the move The Fugitive was released in 1993 I was adamant to see it straight away. Harrison Ford was one of Hollywood’s hot properties and, moreover, a leading role had been given to Tommy Lee Jones, for whom I had grown a soft spot. Initial reviews were glowing and critics seem to agree unanimously that a potential cult movie had been born.

When I left the movie theatre I wasn’t sure what had kept me spellbound; the special effects, the storyline, Ford’s ...

After publishing my last blog this morning, Illustrating Organisational Change, one of my friends called me to mention that diagramming has been an instrumental part of the visual leadership in the military. In combat, everything is about interpreting environments – first through tactical maps, then, in the field, through first-hand observation.

He pointed out that “literally, a soldier’s survival depends directly on how well and how quick (s)he can respond ...