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I've just seen Netflix plugging their new rom-com, Holidate, with Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey. The movie's title is obviously made up of two words slammed together: Holiday and Date. This is called a "Portmanteau" where the sounds and meaning of two words come together, to make a new one with its own meaning. As in the case of Brunch (from Breakfast and Lunch). Portmanteau can be a rich area for ideating new ideas and revenue streams, and is a great way to have some fun w

I find Jacinda fascinating in terms of leadership and storytelling intersecting.

Because unless you are challenging, pushing the envelope, changing things up, you are pretty much going through the Rinse-and-Repeat motions

The times have changed. The world has changed. We need to move on in our new skin.

So, think about how you might introduce and use the Rule of Threes in your writing, speaking, and presentations. (Go back through this blog

The world is changing at a faster rate than we’ve seen in many years – probably not since the industrial revolution. In more recent times

This cover caught my eye in the airport bookshop recently as I raced for my next flight ... (Being late for a flight doesn't mean there's not time to stop at a bookshop, of course.) So I flicked through it to see if it was worth buying. Short answer: yes. I haven't read it fully yet but what I thought was interesting was a list called Top Lessons to Lead By ... The top one is: “To tell great stories, you need great talent.” And the next one is: “Now more than ever, in

Just about everyone, including the intern, can perform the first 80% of any job assigned to them. That’s the easy part. (And it’s...

This is the time of the year when most human resources professionals look back on employee performance and begin planning their training...

Years ago, I attended an airline client's conference in Seattle. A great harbour-side city which was then the centre of the surging...

We've got it all wrong, folks! The research shows that there is NO correlation between the hours you put in and how much effective output you create. In fact, the opposite is often true. Because we get fatigued, we achieve 'cognitive backlog' (meaning your head's full). And so we start turning in half-baked stuff, with careless sloppy errors and oversights. Because we are humans and our brains cannot simply be switched on to full turbo-thrusting Power Thinking mode and sus

We have noticed some challenges through our conversations with HR practitioners around the region; seeing comments from an HR Group and...

Like, wow, man! It's 50 years since Woodstock, often heralded as the greatest rock 'n roll concert ever. (Google it, Millennials.) I think the most colourful and memorable description of it came courtesy of screenwriter Elliott Tiber who said: “Gathered that weekend in 1969 were liars and lovers, prophets and profiteers. They made love, they made money, and they made a little bit of history.” Hippies in their thousands descended on a little farm north of New York, and I lo

I have been in the corporate world for 15 years and almost 10 years in the training industry. Here's my experience on why training fails...

The race is on to innovate – but What is Design Thinking and How can your team use it to solve problems, create new products and cut process