Gladwell, Cobain, Winehouse, birth, death and 27

Blog, Featured, Generations, Talent, Trends

If you’ve read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, then you’re probably familiar with one of the ideas he suggests around being born in a certain era, a certain generation, or even a certain month. When you’re born counts, says Gladwell. Some or...

Working at Google doesn’t require you being a rocket scientist

Blog, Featured, Scarce Skills, Talent

For anyone wanting to work at Google, and historically put off applying because of the rumours that they only employ rocket scientists. @khayadlanga retweeted an article from Fortune the other day from the Ask Annie column. Here are three interesting quotes from her...

The job advert that makes me wish I was a Journalist

Blog, Featured, So Random, Talent

Generally speaking I find job adverts boring. Really boring. I often wonder if the people who write them, ever sit back with a cup of coffee and reflect on what they’ve just written, and whether they wonder how it’ll make their target audience feel when...

Why Do We Keep Thinking We Think All The Same?

Education, Talent, Trends

Howard Gardner is one of those people that get most of my engines running when I engage with his thinking. You may not know this, but I spent just over 10 years working in a community and youth development context. This was the foundation (people development and...

Right Brain Creative people will be a-head in the future

Featured, Leadership, Scarce Skills, Talent, Technology, Trends

Watch enough TED talks and you’ll soon realise one of the big themes has to do with who and what human beings will have compete with in the future. It’s not only going to be each other we have to compete against, it’s also going to be technology...