Category Archives: points of view

You know the score: Business Insider and Forbes and the rest are all at it. “Ten reasons your boss is an arse.” “Five reasons why your fruit-named company is about to fail.” “Seven reasons why social media is a self-reflecting circus of shame.” But why are they so popular? Well, in Dan Pink’s latest book,Continue reading “3 reasons why those articles about some reasons are so popular”

One of the books that I remember from my childhood was a collection of beautifully illustrated poems by Brian Patten called The Sly Cormorant and the Fishes. The poems were re-workings of animal fables, often with very different outcomes from the originals (who won the race of the tortoise and the hare? The hare, ofContinue reading “the sly cormorant and the fishes”

In our richly socially-networked world today, something seems a little incongruous if you observe behaviour at most networking events. The perpetual exchange of little bits of printed cardboard. Why do we still use business cards when we could be sharing Twitter ID or LinkedIn invites over the air? My hunch is that it comes downContinue reading “little bits of cardboard”