Monthly Archives: January 2012

Fail faster … or too BIG to fail?

Posted on January 27th, 2012

Three years after the initial bank bailouts and the rescue of a bunch of really crappily run companies, I think it’s fair to say that too big to fail was a myth. The intention of corporate bailouts was to prevent the financial carnage that it was believed would inevitably ensue should one of those bloated, [...]

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Release yourself from entitlement

Posted on January 12th, 2012

Mark Twain said it first: Release yourself from entitlement. Mark Twain said a lot of very clever stuff actually. Not only was he a great writer, he’s a really, really underrated thinker. Ned Hardy, the self-anointed curator of the Internet lists a bunch of Twain’s brilliant ideas on his blog and I recommend you go and [...]

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Put the emphasis back on creating, where it belongs

Posted on January 9th, 2012

I recently published a novel I’ve had kicking around for the best part of a year, as an Amazon Kindle ebook, and in the process I’ve learned something important about how easily we can allow aspects of a project to turn into monsters, obscuring the actual creative work that matters. I’m not going to drone [...]

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An open letter to Keith Williams, CEO of British Airways: You have a Happiness Problem

Posted on January 4th, 2012

Hey Keith, I hope you’re well and that 2012 has started on a positive note. I don’t suppose it’s getting any easier to run an airline with the economy we’re in right now, and I’m guessing it might even be a little harder than ever. I wouldn’t want your job, mate, and I salute you [...]

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