How to Avoid a Brand Crisis in 48 Hours
When Victor Dlamini and I launched social media crisis consultancy 48 Hours late last year, we had no idea…
Breaking the Social Media Spiral With Better Thinking
Can we use moments of pain, adversity and uncertainty to develop better thinking? Fear reduces our cognition to …
Are Happy Employees Good for Business?
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of talking to Ian Fuhr, best known for starting and growing the Sorbet…
What Do We Really Mean by Digital?
Is there a word in the business lexicon that we can interpret in more ways than “digital”? Is digital a thing?
Fighting While Moving Backwards
Most sports have seen their events and audiences grind to a halt during the global COVID-19 lockdown. UFC pre…
The One-Eyed Man podcast Season One
you remember those heady, idealistic early days of blogging? I was an early adopter and as such was often…
How SMEs can survive the COVID-19 crisis
This is an unimaginably difficult time for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s a tough time for everyone, to be fair, but when you’re balancing the survival of your organisation with the concern you have for your employees, economic uncertainty, and your own well-being, you have a cocktail of complexity and stress.
Reflections on the 2017 BCX Disrupt Summit
Social instability will get us long before AI does.” If I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard someone use the words innovation or disruption in a boardroom or conference venue in the last ten years, I’d have 0.892 bitcoin.
The Best Business Advice You’ll Ever Get
I posed the question of what’s the single best piece of business advice you’d ever received to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn recently. There were some great answers, so I’ve collated and listed them here.
3 Steps To Combatting Idea Inertia
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. Many would argue the inherent value of ideas. Personally, I believe ideas in and of themselves are worthless. An average idea with even the tiniest first step taken is immeasurably more valuable than a phenomenal idea coupled with zero action.