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It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Coming - S.M. Lockridge
S.M. Lockridge must be one of the greats when it comes to the power of the spoken word. Passion, pause, melody, rhythm, power.
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