I found this an interesting list, and it raises the question of why are some countries more innovative than others? In my weekly LinkedIn Newsletter I spoke about this in more detail. Obviously factors such as: Investment in Research and Development Education Government Policy All play a part, however, innovation should not be seen as […]
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I recently posted on LinkedIn a series of short video thoughts on how we deal with our emotional states in the work setting. Video shorts of 60-90 seconds are fine, but to fully explore the topic, we need more space and time. I hope you will add your thoughts to mine and share how you
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Some years ago I was working with an organisation in the Middle East that was establishing a new network of business angels, and a fund for startups. As part of the design and implementation, we built in the requirement that the startups we supported should have access to the services of a business coach or
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Just a couple of days after publishing my last post on community, I was diagnosed with Covid! Despite being double-jabbed and boosted, I caught the virus and it has not been ‘just a sniffle’ but rather more like the feeling of being trampled on by elephants. Yes I know there are have millions of posts,
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In recent weeks I have had some interesting discussions about ‘community’, many of these have in relation to working with others on potential projects. This has prompted me to ask myself a number of questions about the differences between working as a team and that team being part of larger, organisational community. Thinking aloud here,
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Global Entrepreneurship Week In just a few weeks it will Global Entrepreneurship Week. Between 8-12 November, Global Entrepreneurship Network will celebrate 13 years of helping millions of people unleash their ideas to start and scale new businesses through Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) I have been responsible for leading GEW in two very different countries and the
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I love this statue. It is in Qatar, in Katara which was designed as the ‘cultural village’ of Doha and is the venue for many local arts and crafts festivals as well as being the location of many arts related local organisations. The sculpture is called “Force of Nature 2”, and was created by the
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I have worked remotely most of my working life, starting in late 1980’s, yes, even back in the last century there was such a thing as ‘virtual teams’ (although I am sure we did not refer to ourselves as such). When I started working from home, I was an employee working for a consultancy with
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We often hear exasperated managers talk about the activity of managing team members as ‘herding cats’, and we smile and nod, sympathetic with the cat herder trying to align the interests and the attention of their team, are there any ways of making this task easier? All of us who lead or manage projects will
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Over the next few posts I will be looking at the whole area of mentoring – and by way of introduction: As I mention in this short video, my absence from this site has been mostly to do with busyness, busy initially immersing my self in further training and development (that’s the structural dynamics I
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