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Who’s Doing What To Minimise Meetings?
Examples of companies and organisations actively working to minimise unnecessary meetings and improve their effectiveness
One Way To Tell If I Really Need Another Meeting?
Do I really need another meeting? Real deliverables don't happen in a meeting, and yet we're spending 60% of our time in meetings.
The Curious Story of an 8 Year Old Boy, a Traffic Cone, and an Old Man
It’s all too easy to lose the child that sees treasure where adults see litter, and opportunity where adults see risk.
Invisibles - Human Superheroes Changing The World
Invisibles are superheroes. From time to time, they put on their Invisibility Capes, go out into the world, and clean it up.
A Silver Lining in the Dark Clouds of Donald Trump
Perhaps it won’t be as rocky a ride as I currently anticipate. It can only be 4 years. Right? I’m Barrie, and I’m a South African!
Do You Have A Word For The Year 2025?
Do you have a word for 2025? If not, read this. The instructions are pretty straight forward. I dare you :-)
The World's Top Therapist || Bob Newhart
I can’t tell you how many times I sit with friends, wanting to take on the persona Dr Switzer, and then pass on his powerful advice. STOP IT!!
SA Election Winners In A Sandpit For an Hour
Imagine taking the leaders of this week's top political parties and dropping them into a sandpit, requiring that they play together?
An Ode To LinkedIn
I wonder what we all could be if we escaped our neediness? If we were always honest, and open, and authentic?
What Criteria / Rules Does Wordle Use for Its Answer List
How do words get onto the Wordle Answer List? Here's a short adventure of what I discovered on my journey through the interwebs
A Push Up Challenge And The 10 000 Hour Rule Problem
Challenge someone to put in 10 000 hours of anything, to become a world class whatever it was, and they'll give up before they start
Creativity and your Subconscious. Nothing is as it seems
Derren Brown invited 2 sets of Advertising Executives to come up with a name, logo and strapline for a taxidermy business.