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Critical race theory a Christian perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVtZN5-j1A
Ron De Santis – equity diversity inclusion edi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6lTqleoc4
woke svb silicon valley bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OM6OrbnT34
Perspective on trajectory and end times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenXdkD_bNU evil god delusion hold back the truth or diabolical deception n- demonic lies keep from you let transition in California sexualising kids - minor attracted persons
woke / equality diversity and inslusion spirtuality and diabolical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Aq7WGIhzA follow emotions vs reaity change emotion vs image divorse from reality - demonic control emotions reason breaks down - natural law occluded sin or bad [...]
Calvin on Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOOK86BjL0w
Calvin Robinson = integrity legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13A6UU6IPY
UK Gov transport paper
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/34205/documents/188123/default/
Wokeness language
https://www.commentary.org/articles/michael-lewis/wokeness-english-language/
https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
john lennox wellbeing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4St_G-_FtcA
Ai is a religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17bzlWIGH3g
EVs and EV strategy in the UK
Firstly lets relish some bastardised Shakespeare.. Electric Vehicles "to be?" or "do what do you really want them to be?" That is the Question? If there ever [...]
ChatGPT
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/04/chatgpt-isnt-a-great-leap-forward-its-an-expensive-deal-with-the-devil
listening – liberate the people
https://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen?language=en
jordan peterson alternative 6 qns re wef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cjujecPsE
Soros
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19373/goerge-soros
China propaganda the West needs to up their game
https://jamestown.org/program/bleak-new-world-american-society-in-chinas-official-narrative/
China has infitrated every US university
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pompeo-ccp-has-infiltrated-every-major-us-university_5019148.html?utm_source=uschinanoe&src_src=uschinanoe&utm_campaign=uschina-2023-01-31&src_cmp=uschina-2023-01-31&utm_medium=email&est=T9VqGG%2F7%2FbVdSVtHkeOCtl%2BQ9NlWVHzDu5Kwg%2FPExdqOU%2Blq%2FjaoOvH7jIzWhsEEqik0fiA%3D
Britishvolt leadership dialogue
and Ben Kilby head of marketing / communications at BV.. Ben Kilbey Ben Kilbey• 2ndFounder of Strategic Communications/Business Development Advisory, Bald Voodoo - you are your own [...]
EDI The Radicalization of Race: Philanthropy and DEI
https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/the-radicalization-race-philanthropy-and-dei
WEF – the reality
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19340/world-economic-forum
Cain Abel and Woke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVu15NX0kMA
AI – strategic nonsense fueled by no critical thinking
The House of Lords is where it was happening this evening, another #artificialintelligenceai all party parliamentarians group, "#artificialintelligence in the boardroom" Can we manage the risk? - [...]
scientific dogma
source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF03FN37i5w
The evil and hypocrisy of when an apology is not good enough..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5YpyAgzFw&feature=youtu.be
China – eg, Tik Tok, the nature of
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19295/tiktok-ban-us
Jordan Petersons attack – no bended knee 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF_K47Wbac0&t=263s
Tech pump n dump party is over…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grant-halverson-52b0799_why-tiger-global-reneged-on-commitments-to-activity-7019450614162051072-v-SV?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
weak woke men
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_the-universe-25-experiment-is-one-of-the-activity-7018206887443615744--rQI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Chinas plan
https://www.theepochtimes.com/communist-china-on-track-with-plan-to-replace-us-as-superpower-michael-pillsbury_4878134.html?utm_source=uschinanoe&src_src=uschinanoe&utm_campaign=uschina-2023-01-09&src_cmp=uschina-2023-01-09&utm_medium=email&est=Ks686WBJUop8uYPTtDoqTW5boD99LwwLalLsKukODdf9vCSdlYlTDpXS9qbzO7wt7liFtuw%3D
insidious climate change link science-politics – investors
https://youtu.be/7LVSrTZDopM?t=3266
Do schools kill creativity Ken Robinson – are you killing creativity?
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity
Pinocchio how foolish i was when i was a puppet, trauma vs liberation from unconscious
awareness of this puppet master - slackens the strings thanks but can handle it friend vs master process of awareness source of suffering relieve suffering it vs [...]
Taking a new perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m281h5wZLb4
fuelling woke labeleling
https://youtu.be/m281h5wZLb4?t=2671
sigma male vs a Narcissist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2X7a5RtBnk
the narcissm of pronouns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8zFN-vf5p0
the irrationality of science
validating false generalisations - are very hard to undo and disprove using the iron rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDK7cO-JPs
#equitydiversityinclusion and ammunition
Live... this #equitydiversityinclusion manifestation is what a mass psychosis looks like. Become aware of the issue and solution: https://lnkd.in/ewWQ6mJb Forget, the abject waste and misdirection of these [...]
Musk on AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkP9cwsEx0o
Tech Dystopia by Thiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibR_ULHYirs
Identity and queer theory: truth matters, you need Jesus
believe and conform - based upon force to believe vs truth and goodness and beauty of Christianity give up mind in name of tolerance you can choose [...]
Climate analysis Judith Curry -= clear thinking and analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBdmppcfixM The mantra of climate disaster has been driven by a political agenda or WEF etc - world government not capitalism - power issue chose global warming [...]
proof of God impossible there isnt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8PPO-cAlA
The importance of a ruler/leader
"Tsekung asked about government and Confucius replied: 'People must have sufficient to eat; there must be a sufficient army; and there must be confidence of people in [...]
Babel and WEF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5jzpeHJXLc
ESG the anti-trust tyranny
#ESG is another malign ideological force that undermines boards and many don't recognise. There is an unhealthy anti-trust / anti-competitive level of control attempted by the likes of [...]
Big 4 and woke
The big4 do seem to be stoking up its self-serving woke #intersectionalism (victim-centric) #gravytrain. Leaders must deal with the specifics and ask the #women specifically, or else these woke #generals just fuel division [...]
Biblical view of woke
whites act in their own interest convergence where it suits them financially / advantages - only time act, love their neighbour opposite intersectionality more division claims [...]
US perspective on our woke culture
A US perspective on the UK #Culture is valuable: "Over time, as governments began to separate themselves from religion, many responsibilities of the church became transferred to the state. [...]
the choice of truth, heaven or hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxcfiAo_8S4
Cop27 yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMLW2RundY
zebras and protection in herds
https://youtu.be/v-hIVnmUdXM?t=1461
Social scoring in Italy starting in 2022
https://www.nspirement.com/2022/05/21/social-credit-system-in-europe.html
Transgender psychology – How to screw up your kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbXyyq1333I
human stupidity
.. Albert Einstein — 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.' Productive dialogue is what enables us to [...]
Truth changes everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZnzA6dcs8
Woke trashing the NHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlG1WxfG74
web 3
Thoughts from John Reed Stark Here is yet another comprehensive, thoughtful and commonsensical research paper, written in plain English, by yet another technology expert, explaining why [...]
What is crypto? Bob Seeman
"A cryptocurrency cannot be an asset since it has no cash flow and virtually no utility. A cryptocurrency is an accounting entry for a non-existent asset. Therefore, [...]
Truth beauty and goodness – culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXneDMa9gbA
inflation proofing
own earnings power or business that dont require working capital to grow / run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlwyV3DYPHY
Danger and power of renaming things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTlvlQcLZI
the tech curse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balGGAd6ZrI
Marxism equality vs sensible climate strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ40aTSHIl8
narcissist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKxmFPmzzx4
how to forgive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EO2_KiSj0
Forgiveness brings us together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsbltHVBIWI
Audience capture being brainwashed by an audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2RpY_dj9Y
EDI are not fundamental values
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY0O0xNZJA
The Chaning world order Ray Dalio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8
what do you put your trust in?
https://youtu.be/hjxKG4mR3U4?t=4084
WEF dont like free speech either
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18825/great-reset-wef
Emily Maitliss – breakdown ruling populism mantra, strategic bias, coping mechanism
https://youtu.be/PzqezAV3x_8?t=1166
APPG conclusions on blockchain!
This policy briefing paper to inform Westminster Hall Debate covers key discussion points including crypto payments systems and stablecoins. Policy Brief for Westminster Hall Debate on the [...]
Bitcoin track record
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_i-looked-into-34-top-real-world-blockchain-activity-6959483167858638848-HCEF?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
collapse of civilisation – ignoring the spirit and hubris at “height of society”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-w30pOkzY
cancel culture
https://youtu.be/jflsEm_3Mwk?t=104
Psychological contagions in girls falling for hysteria, co rumination suspend reality to get on team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thj7YcALgmE
Orwell that ends well
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-11059135/Woke-Britain-turning-Soviet-state.html
1. Thiel on Growth – living with low growth
Peter Thiel on the flawed mantra of endless growth: "What if the Club of Rome is right, though, and we really have reached the limits to material [...]
Sanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_l8GT7wbgc
Twitter and social media – pollution of the air we all breath beyond repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0qlnh5I38
Cultural war with Russia – fueled by woke insanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPcX4vep_Lo breakdown of western "democracies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdHm2dmvKE
communism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIU8WAFixWs
Gender Lies are enshrined in law
https://www.premierchristianity.com/opinion/christians-can-be-fired-for-not-using-someones-preferred-pronouns-heres-what-you-need-to-know/13400.article?utm_source=Premier%20Christian%20Media&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13313810_Voice%20of%20hope%2005.07.2022&dm_i=16DQ,7XD02,RI6YLC,WDXFD,1
TikTok destroying a generation
https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/tiktok-is-slowly-destroying-a-new-generation-804cfdfbae03
Free thinking
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18659/woke-inquisitors
post modern terminology, a dangerous route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYfKWQqvFac
metaverse
https://stephenmoore.medium.com/weve-already-lost-interest-in-the-metaverse-9ed6dcccad6f
Girls are vulnerable to woke – trashing their identity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxaMBUegyK0
Crypto – and freedom WEF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHALBScZa2o
Carllion – what fraad looks like – the cause is something entirely different
https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/12/kpmg-fined-frc-audit-carillion
resisting woke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNMwW6gmJAU
Being and consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW2ZFfjV5ec
Lose your male identity – you lose the will to fight?
https://medium.com/@ossiana.tepfenhart/the-broken-man-epidemic-we-need-to-talk-about-6c00406248ae
confusion on gender is exactly what we need!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWNPFydBOKg
waste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PYYadvwkOo
concrete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnN4pZtf7aE
wisdom intellect and arogance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3xE9SoPSY
safety and authoritarionism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKo8oC0LHMU
Creating too much money creates inflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94jGTWNWsA
The weird psychology feeding the delusion of crypto
https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/now-that-crypto-is-objectively-dead-this-is-the-next-big-thing-87bbc7ff55bb
decentralised web3 the lie
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_the-false-promise-of-web3-activity-6897446617654329344-wkqQ
The importance of maintaining identity
"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness." [Elie Wiesel] YELLOW STAR Jane Doe Made for shame Worn with pride This band on my arm [...]
menticide
https://www.bitchute.com/video/vD26nWgOUDrM/
echantment an alternative to DIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZkv_prTOk
Metaverse and addiction – screwing up a generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vEEeRGGx4
Wellbeing why dont we see it?
More lonely and isolated than ever listen to the depressive signals they are NOT a malfunction Solutions belong to a tribe, nature, value, and care, garden bloom [...]
feelings vs effort inequality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBuBBC5fwd4
Revolut vying for your time
https://bettermarketing.pub/how-revoluts-new-product-can-kill-booking-com-and-expedia-in-one-shot-60bd61ba290c
defi – decentralised – what rubbish, its more centralised in a group you would never trust!
https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/fintech-is-a-fucking-scam-9f863e5ecfe6
Fix the problem or you mess yourself justifying it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yT_sOO351Q
god does exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrqzITuSqE
actions beliefs and God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coTKSH_YN7E
Post modern influence in education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJS4K31KneQ
The last days of being human
transhuman control of person via nueral link 500k people on earth live for ever - CRISPR tech destroy family tech have direct control of people live for [...]
Ai – the fundamental flaws
a few flaws that require critical thinking these are fundamental unless use neural link we cant understand the output, why should we logic is not our [...]
Defi is centralised
https://medium.com/@Max_BTC/decentralized-finance-is-the-biggest-scam-in-the-cryptocurrency-universe-317d276eff7d
woke definition post modernism jordan peterson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFPKKOPH_Q
climate change is complicated
reducing consumption conflicts with increasing wealth of the poor so that they care about the environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ui92cPxueM
Tech is the new sacred yet.. tech knows everything about you and you know nothing about it
https://youtu.be/UG23kbdYm3o?t=238
Chinas surveillance
the cost of being behind on tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JovtmKFxi3c
Peter Thiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVGLR0K3rX8
Bitoin diatribe: normalising the energy consumption
https://akarshnalawade01.medium.com/bitcoin-has-already-won-ea028936f016
The bitcoin Fraud – disinformation
This is a sensible balanced psychological analysis of the fraud underlying Crypto defi etc, "The source of widespread economic disinformation in the modern era has not originated [...]
Wuhan, Woke and who trusts China?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2Sj_QpZOA
Munger on simplicity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMSGPrh8QU
Lars insightful update
https://emergingtechradio.libsyn.com/
car costs running old IC cars is good for the environment
1450kg of c02 laptop 700kg CO2 classic car 1200m/a 54t volvo 40 life 36t polstar electric car life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vcdv5Ho-hs
Fast AI advancements China and bigtech
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_gpt-3-scared-you-meet-wu-dao-20-a-monster-activity-6868819305652342784-eE89
Li fast charging
https://podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/doron-myersdorf-storedot-88/id1442356042?i=1000540598067
Blackrock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghP7kImI9WM
alcohol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNunMOV5t6U
knowing yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR2_AQzcAXo Does experience matter? Who you are and could be What willing unwilling to do Difference integrity – strength Good and or challenge Mayhem capacity – conflict [...]
metro’s flawed view of retail
This will make no money https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianbartaby_the-future-of-the-high-street-lies-400-years-activity-6862314764480069632-wtx3/
Top 7 (flawed) tech strategies
https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-7-trends-shaping-digital-transformation-in-2022/?utm_campaign=601a9a545954dd0001e2ce08&utm_content=618415d717088a00019aa21c&utm_medium=smarpshare&utm_source=linkedin
addiction
https://drchatterjee.com/dr-gabor-mate-on-why-we-are-all-addicts/
Denis Prager on Wisdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX_zQGpr4Sc&t=25s
Wokeness, the threat
What are you NOT saying? So, we wonder why people are getting screwed up? "Ideas are replaced with identity. Forgiveness is replaced with punishment. Debate is replaced [...]
Crypto corruption “decentalised” crypt is vastly centralised – the language matters
https://medium.com/engineering-ideas/blockchain-is-not-decentralised-e098ce4f2a45
Bitcoin and inflation of FIAT currency
"One of Warren Buffett many hidden quotes that stand out is: “Rule Number One: Never lose money. Rule Number Two: Never. Forget Rule Number One.” Though one [...]
what do people want – zebras – stay in the herd or youll get picked off
people want to be invisible and left alone - fundamental motivation don't want to succeed just don't want to fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ekleRU-FM
Icebreakerexecutive – capability update
What can we do to best help you? At this juncture I thought I should confirm what we do: icebreakerexecutive.com operational support model still exists, underpinned by [...]
psychological safety – HBR – really?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it
Bitcoin the flawed mantra and revolution
https://www.inbitcoinwetrust.net/like-it-or-not-bitcoin-is-our-best-hope-for-a-better-world-in-the-future-42de876607bb
China the tyranny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtVMFPjNUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmsz3Jn8z2Q
The madness of defi
https://medium.com/concoda/cryptocurrencies-are-about-to-tear-our-society-apart-e0325415be4f
post modernism and PC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rUPatnXSE
the dangers of propoganda and tribalism, one step at a time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM2o9e-pwoE
All unchallenged ideas are wrong – eg communist manifesto
all ideas are wrong - critical thinking 2 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_MXSE3wUT4
victimhood – only a victim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYRK16PIlA
Li Batteries & Cobalt summary
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/lithium-cobalt-batteries-powering-the-electric-vehicle-revolution/
Soros – funding the corrupt left
https://www.mrc.org/george-soros-media-mogul?mkt_tok=OTA3LU9EWS0wNTEAAAF_ki5SYQSnybHd6m6GaPQQ50yLcCaTm2EaEpVXRujTzXkin4i9P-FtMo6oWMOLQ0iviZU3x3FHHuXl4zYJX2M0mIEwkqvM3zJPD7i4y9KJyBXIHnQadg
attest
what does it take for your customers to care as much as you do? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s2e16-jeremy-king-ceo-founder-attest/id1530049453?i=1000535381750
Lithium Sulphur Batteries
https://interestingengineering.com/the-secret-to-cheaper-and-better-lithium-sulfur-batteries-a-pinch-of-sugar?_source=newsletter&_campaign=1EM0eqYWK2A8R&_uid=l9av2J5naG&_h=28b99de99bb0b60166bf94b7d0baabaf4494bc9b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-15-09-2021
addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVg2bfqblGI
SEC asking for clarity on Crypto
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roslynlayton/2021/09/12/its-time-to-end-the-secs-clarity-charade-on-crypto/
Cyber crime risks with digitisation
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17737/cyberwar-flipping-switches
Tech creating books and language
“Semantic Apocalypse” being the inflation away of meaning by syntax, by the linguistic and creative output of AIs, which lack all consciousness and intentionality, and therefore whose [...]
Who knows better you or God?
https://onchantingharekrishna.medium.com/thermodynamics-and-the-existence-of-god-39e2faaa2cdf
Bezos lives forever?
https://interestingengineering.com/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-lab-to-extend-his-life?_source=newsletter&_campaign=ognaJKVWp0D8&_uid=l9av2J5naG&_h=28b99de99bb0b60166bf94b7d0baabaf4494bc9b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-07-09-2021
New Puritans
"Hungarian psychoanalyst of that era, diagnosed the trauma of forced conformity in patients, as well as in herself. “I play the game that is offered by the [...]
Investing in China!
Happy Monday morning, here is a blindspot / integrity test - who is investing in #China? "The next pandemic, therefore, could be the one that leaves China as [...]
social media addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q
Supertrends – abundance, fechnology, test the assumptions
assumptions to challenge Intelligence is the big issue in terms of making these transitions which is fixed so more automation assumption more roles at the top of [...]
Hubris, leaders need healthy dialogue, not woke dialogue.
leaders need healthy dialogue, not woke dialogue. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-modern-executives-are-more-susceptible-to-hubris-than-ever/
Investor returns with online 2021
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/companies-shower-investors-with-cash-5121492/
Cyber part 1
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17654/cyberwar-part-one
Dangerously flawed tech mantras
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/08/digital-transformation-depends-on-diversity/
We must take individual responsbility
We can't blame the system we must individually take responsibility because it is us that ultimately have to pay back government debt and the peculiar god/diverting madness [...]
Who is thinking take EVs
Who is really thinking ahead or planning? Take EVs... "When talking about saving the planet by replacing internal combustion vehicles with EV’s, we first need to comprehend [...]
Is Tech a Mass Psychosis / totalitarism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=09maaUaRT4M&feature=youtu.be
Blockchain a new form of life!
https://interestingengineering.com/blockchain-systems-ai-living-beings?_source=newsletter&_campaign=1NoMkKxoJk444&_uid=l9av2J5naG&_h=28b99de99bb0b60166bf94b7d0baabaf4494bc9b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-13-08-2021
Digital tyranny
https://medium.com/financial-times/big-techs-unhealthy-obsession-with-hyper-targeted-ads-f2c5d89647e9
Peterson – unstoppable doing right thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9YMeFEfLbs
language of tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4Ypse4yIsw
Woke – the end of universities
Wokeness - nonsense and punative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dncyXvPR8uU
Woke Tyranny – the corruption of the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWSUqxCDYJw&t=150s
Sarcasm with Trust is good for creativity
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-sarcastic-people-are-more-successful.html?cid=sf01003&sr_share=facebook
BCG report on Quantum Computing
https://www.bcg.com/en-gb/publications/2021/building-quantum-advantage?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=digital_transformation&utm_description=paid&utm_topic=none&utm_geo=global&utm_content=ccl&li_fat_id=dc93a950-d13e-4aac-ac50-8fe77685c41c
Critical race theory – the flawed generals
https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/anti-racism-is-self-defeating-718c0e16016e https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564218-critical-race-theory-becomes-focus-of-midterms
Tech Dystopia
Quoted: " There’s only two ways out of the terrible conundrum we’re in. One, we take the money we need to invest in saving our civilisation back [...]
Bitcoin religion
"Bitcoin is a religion. That’s a positive and a negative. It means that the zealots are willing to pour enormous amounts of capital into the crypto flagship [...]
Crypto argument for decentratlisation -!
https://chrisherd.medium.com/why-cryptocurrency-will-be-the-next-operating-system-for-capitalism-ae5e1f823590
Tech solving global threats – LOL
"The human mind does not do well with exponential growth, and it doesn’t do well with death. That’s why most of us are in a desperately feigned indifference. [...]
woke – meaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LyGWwkLVOw
Wokeness the danger of following the script 1.08
tyranny vague negatives have to follow a script - tyranny the only person who is not privileged is the person with the worst deal, everyone else is [...]
Are we looking at the wrong things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLg2Q0daphE
Social media engagement/success is driven by isolating other groups!
https://www.inquiremore.com/p/social-media-success-is-driven-by
Contagion of female suicide with trans strategies
From 33 mins explians the contagion. The bizarre idealogy gender is a social construct live alongside the science of being a doctor! Confusing genders infinite [...]
idea pathogens – generals lead to lies to fit the generals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBcKlBaaoc power of negative generalisations language creates reality - postmodernism, language creates power, quasi Marxist does not accept truth - intellectual terrorism fly bullshit into reason, depart [...]
Inflamatory language fuelling the tyranny
https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/real-meaning-taking-knee/reputation-matters/article/1719877?bulletin=mtbulletin&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20210621&utm_content=MT%20Daily%20(571)::&email_hash=
The tyranny and threat to your job – of LGBT / wokeness
https://www.christianpost.com/news/my-world-fell-apart-british-chaplain-accused-of-terrorism-over-lgbt-sermon.html?uid=454e0264b0&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=CP-Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Wokeness: preventing biological males from competing in sports designed for biological females.
#Wokecheck.. I spoke to a chap who trained a UK female Olympic cyclist yesterday. He said that she was refusing to enter the Olympics because the males [...]
Rabbi Sachs – an exemplary moral reference
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/audio-video/Rabbi-Lord-Jonathan-Sacks.mp3
Ethical Ai based interviews LOL
https://web.br.de/interaktiv/ki-bewerbung/en/
ethical ai – LOL
#ethicalaiLOL... here is some proper thinking on why we won't be able to control #artificialintelligence or #machinelearning "Already there exist today machines completing tasks without help from human programmers. The programmers [...]
The woke fuelled escalating gender crisis
This woke #gender -driven silence is corrupting professionals and prevents reaching the truth see 25.30: These lies play to the weaknesses of young girls, these lies are causing a [...]
Bitcoin energy consumption
#LOLatBitcoin, #bitcoin is the ninth most valuable asset in the world, now requires nearly as much energy as the entire country of Argentina. The Bank of England had warned that cryptocurrency [...]
Wellbeing and tech!
Another girl at my daughter's school committed suicide yesterday. What are you doing to stop the rollout of #tech and #ai? #Tech and #ai is destroying productive businesses, #well-being, #work, #thinking, and #psychologicallyduping execs as well as addicting most [...]
The UK economy is still 8.7% smaller
The UK economy is still 8.7% smaller than it was before the pandemic, even with the ongoing government support and HMRC / creditor forbearance. Get prepared for [...]
Oxford Institute for Ethical AI – The thinking in tech/ai is elementary and misleading
https://brookes.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ff22eb8d-39e1-4ab1-977d-ad26009009eb Nigel Crook "moral machines", "ethical AI" "aiforgood" etc are all very misleading mantras that distort and delete the reality, and take advantage of flaws in human [...]
Bitcoin …!
"Right now, #Bitcoin is a textbook Ponzi scheme. The evidence is crystal clear, don’t trust any Bitboy who tells you otherwise: It has no intrinsic value. You can’t eat [...]
SPACs are another ..
In my view, there is nothing much of any real-world substance to invest in so.. Ponzi tech deals or SPAC structures are being abused for benefit of [...]
Why are we focussing on the wrong things; obsession climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNSnMTem98
Good people are now silent
Good people are now silent, so I'm sure now need new skills: 1. 06 - what will we do with mobile phones? 2. '10 - Social media – shut [...]
Social media flaws
"The thug is aware that loudness convinces sixty persons where reasoning convinces but one." Mark Twain
HBR – take small actions to demolish big goals
This is what the 1 day winningthinking.uk Game Changer does, all delegates take 12 small actions to demolish their audacious challenge and make it the norm to take newaction. [...]
Bitcoin – starting new countries
I think #Bitcoin / #blockchain started as a hollow fad until investors figured out how they could pump up its value. This hollow profit seems to have corrupted and drawn in [...]
The importance if putting others first
Part 1 of the winningthinking game changer program is the most important trait is to put others first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4Bkybx1ps
Crypto as a tool to start nations
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_how-to-start-a-new-country-activity-6786591849713864704-XLYy
Chinas arogance
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-08/china-s-arrogance-is-uniting-its-rivals-around-the-u-s
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum
Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape [...]
bitcoin $100k?
Alot are owned by retail investors https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/bitcoins-market-cycle-peak-is-a-lot-closer-than-you-think-2deb9d3dcacb
China’s Tesla
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/15/chinese-tesla-rival-xpeng-motors-gets-76-million-investment-from-government.html
People skills / being ourselves vs AI..
https://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_roose_the_value_of_your_humanity_in_an_automated_future?utm_source=recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=explore&utm_term=newest-talks-6#t-628864
Jordan Peterson – on values
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1sEHNw4UIg
It wont return to normal – a LBS view
https://www.london.edu/think/wcn-when-will-everything-get-back-to-normal-it-wont?utm_campaign=1900780_MC_Think_at_LBS_04_March_2021_NotSubscribedtoThink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=DotMailer&dm_i=2SVQ,14QNG,7PA8KP,4CYGR,1
Bitcoin use in Nigeria
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56169917
Crypto or pay tax?
"Coins with optional privacy can be tracked, says Dave Jevans, the CEO of the blockchain detective firm CipherTrace, but those where “privacy features are on by default” [...]
Green countries
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/greenest-countries-in-the-world/
Bitcoin theft
Wait until the Chinese dominate AI and quantum computing power, then who knows will own cryptocurrency. That defo a fundamental reason to avoid digitising currency, its undefendable. [...]
BLM analysis of the organisation – a tyranny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mglYtZSRa8g
Retail trends – #newnow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLMq8Fpnx8
Is bitcoin a fraud?
I'm sure a lot of underlying assumptions of #cryptocurrency are a fraud, do you agree? The only certainty at a tough time is that fraud increases... Are you aware [...]
Our Speech matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOh1Gflu7Uw
Bitcoin – do we know what drives us?
What is bitcoin, an asset a currency, digital gold? How do you value it? #cryptocurrencys play to all human vulnerabilities, FOMO, scarcity and hedge fund practices propping values [...]
Jordan on gender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddzf9Mm4hdY
The start up VC growth and domination mantra
The power law implies two rules for VCs, says Peter Thiel. This implies two very strange rules for VCs. First, only invest in companies that have the [...]
Banking business model – a tyranny of tolerance
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_why-the-whole-banking-system-is-a-scam-activity-6766653306791043072-0OXl
Battery decison making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G01xv1RyRVw "https://www.electricfuture.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnE1nO6o-do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBBwx3Cbbk The #automotive electrification utopia/manta is flawed: decarbonising using e-fuels to replace fossil fuels is an important parallel strategy. RE-USING current internal combustion engines which [...]
Critical theory – no grace – destroying culture via youth being told history is bad
Critical theory - the world must be changed, pick a side - the enemy, apolitical requires debate to find the evidence, explore things properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZixZAPL7ZxA
hes not woke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWnc-ZlIo5s
Covid 2021 who will pick up the can – its us
The fall out of the European neo-socialist structure: whilst self-righteous, no one wants to take responsibility. As Margarate Thatcher said gov debt is OUR debt.. But. This [...]
KPMG boss wokeness firng
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_kpmg-chair-steps-aside-after-telling-staff-activity-6765540655474212864-ttqh
Bitcoin and getting rich!
https://medium.com/concoda/people-are-buying-bitcoin-because-they-want-to-get-rich-they-just-wont-admit-it-c0be50ecc654
You have intrinsic value regardless of your views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9m6T4dQObc
Goldman on EQ vs IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ngIFlmRRPQ
Is your business paralysed by wokeness?
The #oilindustry has been the largest investment category by far over the last 50 years, until now just been usurped by tech, with #techs own detrimental systemic issues to wellbeing, suicide, [...]
do you kow your limits?
"I know my limits - that's why I'm going beyond that." A reflection for today in tribute to Serge Gainsbourg. ... knowing one's limits is key to [...]
The dangers of wokeness, pride, self righteousness and blame – anger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYLpIrjkIA
Colourful Vocabulary
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-wellness/index.html
The cultural skills gap
The cultural skills gap at grassroots is the big leadership gap to fill. We sort this cultural gap proactively using https://lnkd.in/eJ7XCGP rather as this HBR suggests getting good at [...]
Mckinsey – winner take it all
"Companies have zero time to lose. In an increasingly winner-takes-all business environment in which McKinsey research finds that up to 95 percent of economic profit is earned [...]
lies vs truth, grace vs wokeness
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/peterjmsimons_a-powerful-message-about-what-is-going-on-ugcPost-6753197397263953920-ogpp
Boldness is a better indicator of success than being clever.
Boldness is a better indicator of success than being clever. This is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM82hE6oimw
Why will political correctness fall?
Political correctness is and will fall: you don't have the power to bend reality or get away from weak thinking or flawed action. Do you want reality [...]
normally incompetent is the best place for politicians 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7EaCVnw5n4
Tesla An oddly plausable tech valuation
" Tesla is today’s true automotive trendsetter. Its exclusive commitment to developing electric cars, instead of irresponsible hybrids, has forced the industry to speed up its plans [...]
UK green manufacturing strategy
Great to see the UK setting an industrial strategy, we now need to move fast leverage our abundant capabilities to get ahead and beat the likes of [...]
UK manufacturing revival
Let's wake up to the new-now: by making UK MANUFACTURING GREAT AGAIN bring it back and keep it in the UK! Having led many award-winning manufacturing high [...]
win or wait?
#WIN OR #WAIT? Are you fit and ready for 2021 ! ? We ran another excellent intimate winningthinking masterclass with 4 more leading execs, yesterday, Here were a few [...]
Win or WAIT?
#WIN OR #WAIT? Have you normalised the #emergingscenario challenge rather than address it? The drivers and habit of inaction normalise the challenge, Are you fit and ready for 2021 ! ? [...]
Complexity is bad news for us
Some talk about complexity like its clever and inevitable. Nothing is inevitable. We must simplify and move away from anything that increases complexity such as tech. Increasing [...]
Diversity? Nope
True diversity is the diversity of opinion/character, so has nothing to do with physical characteristics, and certainly nothing to do with gender or sexuality? Or put it [...]
Your view
If you don’t understand the other person's opinion your own opinion is worthless? #jazzband #newaction #emergingscenario #winningthinking #intimacy
Execute the wrong strategy?
Have you noticed it's impossible to execute the wrong strategy? #newaction #ukeconomy #ukeconomy #emergingscenario #jazzband #winningthinking #intimacy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_newaction-ukeconomy-emergingscenario-activity-6739937177385369601-gUpf
Stay silent or free speech?
Is it healthy for people to stay silent when so much needs fixing? "Study author Michael J Tews, associate professor of hospitality management at Penn State’s College [...]
Cronyism and Money..
How did America go from the greatest economy to the most unequal economy of all time: cronyism this will force many back to basics and reduce consumer [...]
True Purpose
Forget leadership advice, here is THE proven route to reconnect with your (infinite) purpose, robust for the last 2021 years and still going strong.. and in your [...]
100%: if you put your people first you can get through anything. People relationships = basis for £++ profit too. #jazzband #intimacy #newaction #ukeconomy #winningthinking #emergingscenario #relationships #eq #brexit https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_people-are-not-an-expense-they-are-an-investment-activity-6743939380899020800-9XP6
Cyber security and China
Cyber-risks is THE greatest reason to de-tech: China will tragically almost certainly lead #quantumcomputing and #AI, yet no-one is talking about it - unpopular blind-spot? The consequential cyber risks will [...]
speaking out on social media
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201118-how-can-employees-also-be-social-media-activists?ocid=ww.social.link.linkedin
True diversity – diversity of opinion / charachter not physical characteristics
True diversity - diversity of opinion/character, not physical characteristics if you don't understand the other person opinion your own opinion is worthless don't take statues down provide [...]
Motivation
emotions stop or reverse, emotions are offshoots of actions, actions are everything you cant motivate yourself without a routine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEsTPaUZF0
Increasing complexity with tech etc is not clever, it is a problem for people
Increasing complexity with tech etc is not clever, it is a problem for people. Some talk about complexity like its clever and inevitable. Nothing is inevitable. We [...]
Google culture is now a tyranny
Secular big tech is patently obviously losing any sense of moral high ground. This is a threat to their existence. Source: https://medium.com/enrique-dans/suddenly-at-google-its-get-on-the-program-or-get-out-5ce19930f554
Be careful
Be careful: "The current stock bubble is unlike any precedented one in his view. The formation of a bubble comes from market participants unrealistically assuming that a [...]
Tech not so cool
"But in the smartphone market, fewer customers are upgrading their phones every two years, and many want to spend less on their next phone than their last [...]
Twitter on free speech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhg4dtuhvNk
networking
https://www.bt.com/skillsfortomorrow/work-life/how-to-network-effectively-with-oli-barrett
Bubble burst
https://medium.com/concoda/the-first-stock-market-bubble-on-record-shows-how-this-one-will-burst-dbb232bbe04b
EQ issue not an IQ issue
This is an EQ challenge not an IQ challenge, thinking must change to fix the right problem, then take #newaction. The solution is a #jazzband: https://lnkd.in/dDnhjfB PPS [...]
Kids that dont play Jordan Peterson’
tech - 2.20 & kids that dont play 13 role for men! not toxic masculinity! 21 men and women 23 family importance - discovery at 30 28 [...]
Jobs last words
Steve Jobs dies a billionaire, with a fortune of $7 billion, at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer, and here are some of his last words... [...]
This is how the economy will recover
"This ends one of two ways. The pain-free way is where the financial elites come together to fix what caused the breakage on August 9th, 2007. The [...]
Protecting and inflating the tech bubble
"We’re floating inside a full-blown, central bank confidence balloon, and all it takes to burst this is a flick of the psychological switch." "The modern-day financial technologists [...]
Who will lead the charge (NOW)?
From the last 30 pubs it's very clear that a very small minority of people that can and have the courage to re-invent great businesses. Its not [...]
Mark Farrer-Brown: a great podcast on coaching
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wZXB0YWxrc21vdG0ucG9kYmVhbi5jb20vZmVlZC54bWw=/episode/cGVwdGFsa3Ntb3RtLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tLzRmMjJkZmJjLWY3ODEtM2MzZi04NWE0LWNhZDMzMDY5Njk3MA==
China – the time for facts / critical thinking
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16662/china-fentanyl-source
subscription pricing
https://marker.medium.com/what-apple-and-netflix-understand-about-optimal-subscription-pricing-db2db7b9f86b
Jordan Peterson critical thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiQObDrCX0
Winston Churchill said “you must never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Winston Churchill said "you must never let a good crisis go to waste."
Jazzband part 2
Let's save UK PLC: "THE PUB" Phase 2: to roll out #Jazzbands; the leadership capability to enable #NEWaction... As Lars said, this is THE time to step [...]
The Standard Form
The Stands Form is ANOTHER great tool (that NO-ONE? is using?) to formally put creditor payments on hold during the turnaround window. #NEWaction #winningthinking https://www.r3.org.uk/technical-library/england-wales/technical-guidance/r3-standard-form-covid-19-cva-proposal/
Are companies the servants of directors, or directors the servants of companies?
Are companies the servants of directors, or directors the servants of companies? Why are the myriad of pragmatic effective #insolvency options NOT being used to save companies? [...]
Jazzbands and decison making
The importance of a #jazzband to enable critical thinking in automotive / aero technology development environment: "While the spotlight has been on electric aviation for the past [...]
Governments getting duped by tech
Even EU / UK Governments are naively getting duped by tech and tech ponzi schemes, sure to lead to a wholesale loss in government income too, let [...]
The Finance ACT 2020 tax implications for directors / shadow directors
https://www.frpadvisory.com/blog/the-finance-act-2020-and-tax-liability-what-turnaround-and-interim-directors-need-to-know/
Reversible decisons – just do it Bezos
quote: "Type 1 decisions are almost impossible to reverse. They’re “one-way doors.” Type 2 decisions, on the other hand, can easily be reversed. They’re “two-way doors.” Type [...]
The LinkedIn business model
https://medium.com/@lancengym/the-endgame-for-linkedin-is-coming-31d4a8b2a76
The “Sycophantic Eagle” has landed: and it’s antidote: openness and critical thinking
This "UK sycophant era" must stop. It is a time to put and ask the tough questions... Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) declared over the weekend that it’s [...]
Covid19 – Moratorium maybe – but directors duties remain.
herbertsmithfreehillscovid19considerationsfromanrtiperspectivewebinarfortmauk8april2020slides1586285013166
C19 Admin and UK Gov Support
https://thmpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/practical-steps-to-take-during-covid19.pdf
Next 18 months
https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a31915611/coronavirus-timeline/
Good Mckinsey article on leadership
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/leadership-in-a-crisis-responding-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-and-future-challenges?
The power of Mantras – a flaw to be aware of or stupid?
https://medium.com/financial-times/why-big-companies-squander-good-ideas-4006a45ee15
the evolution of human stupidity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UVfqtfQBc
Huawei now has major geopolitical implications, so maybe all of its 5G partners want to it quiet,
https://telecoms.com/502606/why-doesnt-huawei-publish-the-details-of-its-5g-deal-wins/
The personal and business transformation from an IMMEDIATELY TAKEN SELF_REALISED NEW ACTION is literally priceless
The personal and business transformation from an The personal and business transformation from an IMMEDIATELY TAKEN SELF_REALISED NEW ACTION is literally priceless... They don't always seem ground [...]
Julian Birkenshaw on critical people skills
https://youtu.be/MfiEwA6WaC4
PWC on AI in 2020 – lots of mantras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=445&v=d8Dmz7mOOZs&feature=emb_logo
The Launch of the Institute of Ethical Artificial Intelligence @Oxford Brookes on 11 Feb 2020
Ethics is what drives us whether our ethics are good or bad https://vimeo.com/390858384 3.20: Professor Linda King, Oxford Brookes, set out the importance of x functional collaboration with faculties [...]
No such thing as ethics in AI?
https://onezero.medium.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-ethical-a-i-38891899261d
Digital transformation yeah? Not
Dominic Cummings: A model of disruptive leadership? "The best way to spot those at the vanguard of disruption is by their unpopularity." a flawed negative generalization so... [...]
Google and Apple control of our attention
"When Google launched its first “Digital Wellbeing” tools on Pixel phones last year, it took a more prescriptive approach to curbing screen time. You could monitor usage [...]
Jordan Peterson on large organisations and why the EUC is flawed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xz_M4_8oMo
No force can contain Amazon & Bezos..?
https://medium.com/the-atlantic/jeff-bezoss-master-plan-ec0cb942dadf
Ambient computing and Googles android platform
"More than any designer this side of Cupertino, Matias Duarte has made phones easy to use. During his tenure at Google — first overseeing the design of [...]
How do tech leaders go along with the tech investment / destruction?
https://vimeo.com/386718326 A rare leadership quality is having the integrity to raise, and resolve issues that are WRONG? Yet the MAJORITY always sit low and say nothing? [...]
An awful new investment reality”Unicorn porn”
https://medium.com/bloomberg/after-wework-softbanks-startup-bookkeeping-draws-scrutiny-503120dcf8ee
The disturbing fallibility of humanity – would you have been a Nazi in Nazi Germany ?
The disturbing fallibility of humanity - would you have been a Nazi in Nazi Germany ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6H2HmKDbZA&feature=youtu.be&t=5025 and doing nothing when the far [...]
No work, rest of play – BBC impact of tech
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d7n7
What Drives you?
https://vimeo.com/367962997
The 2020 CEO Game Changer Program
CEOs, portfolio directors and FDs: The 2020 January CEO Game Changer Program is set be a great day: great executives, groundbreaking results and great location. We now [...]
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Challenge 2020
https://vimeo.com/368842286
The Public Sector Grand Challenge
https://vimeo.com/375757074
Bernie our Client Director’s introduction to 2020
https://vimeo.com/380545314
The #SiliconValley Ponzi & #Unicorn logic:
The #SiliconValley Ponzi & #Unicorn logic: the more money you burn growing, the higher your business valuation... https://vimeo.com/383349972 The thinking that corrupts the best / most sober [...]
the puzzle of motivation
Reward undermines thinking and cognitive tasks - rewards only work for simple tasks https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation#t-70963
The reality of tech funding VC process – “A Ponzi Scheme”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVVsdlHslfI#action=share
Would you follow BCG’s steer on these trends?
If you look at the macro or micro reductions in profit, diminishing investor returns, environmental damage, control, privacy implications, digital feudalism, economic rent, societal, people, market outcomes [...]
Weirdos are welcome but not required
As Jordan Peterson says if people can do their thing and be left alone that's always their preference. But... The difficulty is that the challenge changes and [...]
Learning agility
Learning agility is a core element of the www.winningthinking.uk program - this research shows #learningagility has a robust relationship with both leader performance (ρ = 0.74) and [...]
Stats on digital “transformation”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2019/12/16/100-stats-on-digital-transformation-and-customer-experience/#562433f3bf3e
Do it badly rather than not at all – the need to be a fool before being successful – Jordan Peterson
https://youtu.be/FJV7HeHT4q4
China in Africa Partner or Colonial control?
Partner or Colonial control? https://www.eurasiareview.com/29122019-china-in-africa-developmental-partnership-or-imperial-dominance-analysis/
2019 tech deaths
https://medium.com/pcmag-access/in-memoriam-technology-that-died-in-2019-5d16a8b8a601
ai value chain
https://towardsdatascience.com/who-is-going-to-make-money-in-ai-part-i-77a2f30b8cef
Charles Chaplin on humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HdOHrc3OQ
Where the FNAGS make their money
https://medium.com/pcmag-access/how-big-tech-makes-its-money-b6171b462cd3
Thomas Cook by Pictures!
https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/went-wrong-thomas-cook/reputation-matters/article/1668935?utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20191216&utm_content=MT%20Daily%20(487)::www_managementtoday_co_uk_arti&email_hash=
Jordan Peterson – the big picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0GL_4cAkhI
Google leadership – project Oxygen
https://www.inc.com/michael-schneider/analysis-10000-reports-told-google-to-train-new-managers-6-areas.html
The great paradox of the big4 driven #techstrategies, there appears to be NO #criticalthinking
This is the great paradox of the big4 driven hashtag#techstrategies, there appear to be NO hashtag#criticalthinking because when you look at the emerging facts through hashtag#criticalthinking you [...]
Is the endgame to fix #AI rather than recognizing there might be alternatives?
Is the endgame to fix hashtag#AI rather than recognizing that the hashtag#tech operates upon, creates and enhances bias for example, tech business models increase wealth inequality, reduce [...]
Tech is becoming “too sophisticated” for people or Govs to consider the implications.
Tech is becoming "too sophisticated" for people or Govs to consider the implications. As the tech mantras dominate business strategy there is little hashtag#criticalthinking going on so [...]
Will 2020 be the year when only the paranoid thrive?
Will 2020 be the year when only the paranoid thrive? Here’s some observations from my friend and the great strategist Richard Merrick. Tom's piece on [...]
Will 2020 be the year when only the paranoid thrive?
Will 2020 be the year when only the paranoid thrive? Here’s some observations from my friend and the great strategist Richard Merrick. Tom's piece on [...]
Europe 5g reliance on Huawei and threat to Nokia and Eriksson
A new 5G risk assessment published by the European Union is forthright enough to admit that foreign intelligence activities pose a threat to its strategic autonomy. Yet, [...]
Legal Beagles to lose 35,000 paralegal / support jobs due to #AI
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ai-revolution-could-cost-35000-uk-legal-jobs-law-society-research/5102442.article
Beyond Friedman’s making money
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/friedmans-dictum-is-finally-laid-to-rest-so-what-s-the-function-of-companies-now-827cb15bd5e5
Crazy tech breakthroughs every day? 1tn transistors on this chip!
https://www.techspot.com/amp/news/81520-cerebras-unveils-first-trillion-transistor-chip-world-largest.html
BCG report on tech and global megatrends
This is the great paradox of the big4 driven #techstrategies, there is NO #criticalthinking because when you look at the emerging facts if there was critical thinking you WOULDN'T blindly [...]
CRISPR AI driven medical advances
CRISPR technology has the potential in 10 years time to fix 7000 gene related diseases including ageing, so we could live for 100s of years Jeff Brown [...]
Top 20 advances AI in retail
https://medium.com/forbes/the-20-best-examples-of-using-artificial-intelligence-for-retail-experiences-1636c6e0770d
The future of AI: Highlights from Jeff Brown’s view of the tech future
Highlights from Jeff Brown's view of the tech future There will be 500m 5g stations in the next 12m enabling, ai driven personal assistants will save us 2-3 [...]
AI misinformation
The dangers of looking at the micro level and missing the macro level... https://thegradient.pub/an-epidemic-of-ai-misinformation/
Silicon Valleys Housing Crisis
https://medium.com/bloomberg/in-googles-backyard-rv-living-becomes-a-desperate-act-667a2727a23b
Image recognition and people working for ai
https://medium.com/bloomberg-businessweek/silicon-valleys-latest-unicorn-is-run-by-a-22-year-old-b5a817ce8ea7
Traditional perspective AI is OK!
https://medium.com/@jproco/the-problem-with-artificial-intelligence-isnt-the-science-it-s-the-application-3c640a1bbecf
fintech vs bank
https://medium.com/technicity/will-the-big-banks-be-able-to-hold-up-against-the-fintech-challenge-ced30fff1d0c
Wealth distribution USA top 1% risen from 10-20% (1980-2014 of national income
"In the United States, the richest 1 percent have seen their share of national income roughly double since 1980, to 20 percent in 2014 from 10 percent. [...]
Data protectio and data brokers
"Many people I’ve spoken to have a pretty good understanding that companies like Facebook and Google have a massive amount of data on them. And most of those [...]
Satalia combining optimisation and machine learning
https://youtu.be/SpWkaK-a2g8
UK Ai Sector deal
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/artificial-intelligence-sector-deal/ai-sector-deal
Holding anticompetitive tech to account Utah Statement
https://onezero.medium.com/the-utah-statement-reviving-antimonopoly-traditions-for-the-era-of-big-tech-e6be198012d7
Weird AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCzX0iLnOc
Smartphones..
https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/smartphones-are-weapons-of-mass-manipulation-and-this-guy-is-declaring-war-on-them-903ff2c1f57
The 5G health – tyranny of tolerance
https://youtu.be/bzUv1F2ZhlM https://youtu.be/bzUv1F2ZhlM
)techies) Views on AI
https://medium.com/inc./here-are-27-expert-predictions-on-how-youll-live-with-artificial-intelligence-in-the-near-future-75e9f3777453
IBM’s view of It Growth
But positive progress still comes with problems. IBM estimates that as many as 120 million people in the major economies of the world will need to be [...]
what qualifies as an ai startup?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/11/04/the-ai-maturity-journey-what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-ai-company/#4536c08bf7b1
Apple shift to bundled services, less dominance in hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFFgrLSEXA&feature=youtu.be
A good article on innovation: the balance of structure and autonomy
https://voltagecontrol.co/the-art-of-innovation-7b9eee75ea4
GAN networks – deep fakes
https://youtu.be/PCBTZh41Ris "Their secret lies in the way two neural networks work together — or rather, against each other. You start by feeding both neural networks a whole [...]
The 5 companies that have lost $100bn over the last 10 years worth $300bn
https://medium.com/@the_economist/firms-that-burn-1b-a-year-are-sexy-but-statistically-doomed-dbcba171863f
Amy Webb – getting a grip on tech and democracy
https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/why-a-i-is-a-threat-to-democracy-and-what-we-can-do-to-stop-it-157ed2a448a3
Dyson refuses to lose money on its EV
https://fortune.com/longform/james-dyson-electric-car-appliances/
Economic theory with tech needs rethinking – were the Luddites right?
https://medium.com/the-new-york-times/tech-is-splitting-the-u-s-workforce-in-two-b5b8c7911819
insight into the mocrosfy culture, autocratic and limitting
https://onezero.medium.com/speaking-truth-to-power-reflections-on-a-career-at-microsoft-90f80a449e36 This is the sort of cultural trap, that www.winningthinking.uk addresses can't change the thinking -> way of working unchanged -> recruit more of the same
social media – engrained in our lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3KIvZO5oU
capitalism and wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3KE_H27bs
The power of leadership vulnerability
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
House of Lords All Party Parliamentary Group the Enterprise Adoption Of AI 21 Oct 2019
House of Lords All Party Parliamentary Group the Enterprise Adoption Of AI 21 Oct 2019 Panel Representation from REC, Rialto, KPMG, PWC, Goldsmiths Uni Observations and notes [...]
How inept might we be becoming?
This is a great article illustrating how inept we might be becoming. Are the well-intentioned political correct mantras, chatbots, and tech obsession inadvertently making us increasingly inept, [...]
Cloudfare: an independent block chain internet solution
An independent blockchain internet solution to enable collaboration. Independent of google etc https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/a-big-tech-company-is-working-to-free-the-internet-from-big-tech-companies-df2d8aceee47
Brilliant article from the MIT impact of tech on industry and labour
https://medium.com/mit-technology-review/from-rust-belt-to-robot-belt-turning-ai-into-jobs-in-the-us-heartland
Unicorn vs Cheshire cat?
"Big, of course, begets big. As more and more heavyweight VCs bid up the value of start-ups, others have to follow. It’s up or out. The result [...]
Technological unemployment will lead to things a lot worse than the Opioid addiction and technological loneliness will kill
"We must prepare for the possibility that the Big Data era will be a dystopia for many of many human beings, as we struggle as a species [...]
Youtube manipulation
YouTube’s algorithm, especially, has an outsize influence. The platform is estimated to be second only to Google in web traffic, and 70% of what users watch is fed to [...]
Crypto currency key to decentralised control
Cryptocurrency isn’t just the future because that is what a committed band of dreamers would have you believe. It is the future because it is a new [...]
Tech manipulation
Her study’s findings imply that visual distractions — like the ones caused by the flash of a “new message” alert or a news update — might distort [...]
Serious questions over PWCs report on Ai (wellbeing) and jobs
https://dw2blog.com/2018/07/19/serious-questions-over-pwcs-report-on-the-impact-of-ai-on-jobs/
Microsoft AI report
https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2019/10/01/uk-companies-risk-falling-behind-foreign-rivals-unless-they-use-more-ai-microsoft-report-reveals/
You don’t learn the skills to recognise or fix a turnaround on an MBA
You don't learn the skills to recognise or fix a turnaround on an MBA, so this climate is now catching even the best minds out... Specifically: unlike Thomas [...]
WeWork vs Thomas Cook is there a similarity?
Thomas Cook was formerly a successful profitable business formed 148 years ago. WeWork, however, formed the characteristics and psychology of a distressed business or misaligned actions vs [...]
IBM AI Strategy – strategic distortions & missing opportunities
https://www.ibm.com/watson/webinars/banking-ai/ Comments and observations on the blindspots and strategic distortion and missed opportunities:
Friction reward
Richard Hammonds view: Friction vs Reward easy and more attractive drives customer experience https://youtu.be/Vpf52RYijLY
Watson in AI
https://www.ibm.com/watson/webinars/banking-ai/
European late stage tech investments / exits are less attractive for investors
European late stage tech investments / exits are less attractive for investors https://sifted.eu/articles/nicolas-colin-europe-exits/
AI creating harder jobs for humans can be less rewarding
What’s less understood is that artificial intelligence will transform higher-skill positions, too—in ways that demand more human judgment rather than less. And that could be a [...]
Female entreprenuers only raise 2% of VC funding
https://www.ted.com/talks/dana_kanze_the_real_reason_female_entrepreneurs_get_less_funding?language=en#t-625378
only 2% of the employees in a typical company will fit the emerging needs of the digital business!
It is estimated that only 2% of the employees in a typical company will fit the emerging needs of the digital business! (T.Hewlin/S.Snyder).
the impact of digital super platforms or intermediators on your business
Are you considering the impact of digital super platforms or intermediators on your business, products and services? Alibaba (the Chinese US listed Co) now has now launched [...]
Thomas Cook – Overcooked?
What are the leadership skills to recognise a turnaround? The Thomas Cook business model was bust last time i looked at it, at least 7 years ago. [...]
Tech reducing viable work for people with IQ <87%
Is this now a civilised societies greatest threat: tech automating "repetitive so-called boring jobs" means that 15% of the population with an IQ below 87% won't be [...]
the case for enterprise leadership
This is the case for finding the courageous "enterprise leaders" to sell hashtag#innovation to in large corporations... because corporate structures encourage leaders to be transactional and they [...]
the rise of large companies, drives down earnings
https://medium.com/financial-times/how-adam-smith-predicted-the-power-of-big-tech-43675b756c16
the cool norm/mantra that “it’s OK for startups to lose money
It's worth challenging the cool norm/mantra that "it's OK for startups to lose money..." If a business's financial model is broken scaling it does not fix the [...]
Primark the online retail free success story
Interesting case study: Primark with social media product placement, NO online retail presence is a very efficient low-cost model. Bricks and mortar have far lower operating costs [...]
Using tech to trigger dopamine or serotonin is abusing peoples natural systems
Using tech to trigger dopamine or serotonin is abusing peoples natural systems: yet often forms the foundation for tech-driven (normally retail) companies...? The overlooked aspect of corporate [...]
Too many jobs feel like they are meaningless because they are!
Should we be thinking about modern business in a completely different way? Thirty years ago Baumol, and Robert Litan reviewed evidence suggested that the future of capitalism [...]
Apple is becoming an intermediator
This is another great case study showing how the big tech cos by becoming intermediators enables them to trash (their own) markets. This is not disruption this [...]
Wo is putting their business first?
Who is putting their business first? hashtag#artificialintelligence is a very effective business attack tool: automating/eliminating sources of high value add, making markets smaller, fragmenting delivery, reducing value-adding [...]
House of Lords All Party Parliamentary Group briefing – AI in healthcare
Held on 9 Sept 2019 at the UK Parliament Professor Birgitte Andersen, CEO, Big Innovation Centre Intro: Ai healthcare market is worth $26bn rising to $111bn by [...]
RPA tech impact on white collar value adding jobs
I'm now sure, RPA tech will definitely decimate white-collar "value-adding" opportunities over the next 5 years, humans working alongside tech is largely nonsense! Who will pick up [...]
MIT leadership gap report
traditional leadership development makes 0 difference I am delighted we have broken the mould 🙂 https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-downstream-damage-of-the-leadership-skills-gap/
authentic leadership
There is no reason why if you know how to switch your style that you have to compromise your authenticity or what matters to you? https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/want-to-be-a-better-leader-science-says-stop-trying-to-be-authentic.html
a new tech subcategory “unicorn-von-bonfire” 🙂
As an addendum to the treasured "unicorn" status should there be a new tech subcategory "unicorn-von-bonfire" 🙂 ... Of the 150 studied, 37% of US-listed tech companies [...]
tech culture fuelling a rise in mental ill-health,
With an ‘always on’ culture fuelling a rise in mental ill-health, it’s up to organisations to make sure their workers have some downtime https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/voices/comment/employees-encouraged-switch-off-from-technology?utm_source=mc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=PM_daily_280819.Opinion%3a+Why+employees+should+be+encouraged+to+switch+off+from+technology
The 2020’s paradox your team are quiet…
Every year Gallup measures that 85% of your team is disengaged: BUT why does the measurement of this make your team engagement worse? At 85%, disengagement is [...]
IRL – In real life
The HR Balancing Act: Tech Insights Versus Human Intuition https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2019/07/23/the-hr-balancing-act-tech-insights-versus-human-intuition/#134f24416a58
Thinking will determine if businesses survive the 2020’s
Thinking will determine if businesses survive the 2020's
“BONFIRE” maybe the next great tech brand..?
"BONFIRE" maybe the next great tech brand..? These guys are disrupting the concept of a bonfire? Who will ever need a bonfire again when you've got businesses [...]
Fortune 500
Our forte: realising and getting the mission-critical strategy right... So delighted to have been invited to contribute to enabling (the profitable!) step-change in the growth of a [...]
The tech IPO and the self fuelled profecies
IPOs, (whilst very expensive), used to be a tool that suited grown-up companies. Now with WeWork and Uber IPOs appear to have continued on regardless as an [...]
Free speech at Google?
Closing down political free speech at #Google could create a tyranny of tolerance and undermine integrity. Even small shifts like this would threaten Google culture and send [...]
Economic rent – new dilemma for 2020s
Economic rent is the difference between the value and organisation brings vs the value created for itself This is something to consider to protect the viability of [...]
Thinking labour is declining in the 21st century
"Just as manual labour declined in the 20th century, so thinking labour is declining in the 21st century.” Leaders that aren't thinking or even aware of what [...]
THE OTHER WAY – RETAIL
THE OTHER WAY - RETAIL #ASOS and #OCADO are 2 organisations with great frictionless customer experience, but unaware of how their strategic mantra present an immediate business [...]
Here is what drives you…
Hi At a time when social media and tech are causing us to lose focus and vision this is what concerns our clients most: "their executives have no idea what drives [...]
95% of VCs return below a 3X return: so don’t make money
THE OTHER WAY 95% of VCs return below a 3X return: so don’t make money. So maybe a good time to challenge the VC model y?/n? So [...]
The WeWork strategy?
There isn't much in the WeWork strategy that makes sense, let alone any financial sense, except creating a desperate structure for banks/founders to make money doing pointless [...]
5 reasons why fund raising fails
Here are the FIVE key reasons why fundraising fails. 1. The principals in the deal do not commit any cash to the deal. ‘Sweat equity’, ‘long term [...]
Financial markets cant cope with uncertainty leads to anxiety
Financial markets cant cope with uncertainty leads to anxiety https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/17/markets-are-braced-for-a-global-downturn?fsrc=scn/li/te/bl/ed/marketsarebracedforaglobaldownturntheworldeconomy
The mindset of a great turnaround specialist
This is the perspective of a great turnaround specialist: provide opportunities and support then watch who thrives. Immediate results https://www.linkedin.com/posts/businesstransformation1_zappshelter-familybusiness-video-activity-6566622597977554944-KaY6
Sending risk through the roof…
Gene Kranz's Dictum. Can you see how this well-intentioned statement would send risk though the roof?
What are you doing to invest in your thinking?
https://vimeo.com/350083332 What are you doing to invest in your thinking? Uncertainty, speed, tech and fear of missing out substantially distort our thinking and substantially misalign decision [...]
We can’t find our internal purpose
Wisdom from Jordan Peterson: you cannot find your purpose without a great moral code, where do you find that?
The importance of critical thinking
Wisdom from Jordan Peterson. The importance of critical thinking Jung says people who "don't think" accept their own incoming ideas as facts...
If strategy is so important why dont we make time for it?
Of 10,000 senior leaders, 97% of them said that being strategic was the leadership behaviour most important to their organization’s success, yet pressures push us toward rote [...]
China’s Tech investors are playing a game of hot potato
"Dear Mr/Mrs Founder You believe VC’s pick companies that they think are the best. They don’t. That is not the game The game is to pick the [...]
Chop entropy or disorder, define your business capability end dates
What are you doing to chop entropy or disorder, define your business capability end dates, and stay ahead in this increasingly tech-fuelled frenzy? winningthinking.uk hashtag#venturecapital hashtag#accountability hashtag#emotionalintelligence [...]
AI in retail at the Shard
Delighted to share some pictures from the AI speaking events held at the Shard in July. Thank you so much to Professor Andy Pardoe and Imogen Weston [...]
Flawed leadership perceptions and tech mantras
Technology has to be about amplifying human potential. At the end of the day, it's human creativity, empathy, innovation that takes the world forward, no matter what [...]
Take new actions it changes our reality
it's all about practising new actions - it rewires our brains and new actions our reality : https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work
Alibaba and Chinas business models
As China is the toughest retail market in the world they are & will set the pace when they start exporting these digital business models - Amazon [...]
Since the steam engine our ability to collaborate has diminished?
“Manufacturing is changing. New technologies, business models and value chain structures are radically altering not only how we make things, but how we innovate and how nations [...]
We seem to be losing our skills to make money
Do you recognise this, we seem to be losing our skills to make money? Heres a common observation from our recent engagements... are you a lightly resourced [...]
does your business pass the blueberry pancake test… 🙂
As Michael Caine famously suggested "let's blow the doors off" - does your business pass the blueberry pancake test... 🙂 You won't make these shifts without knowing [...]
This is how YOU waste 70% of your time in YOUR business…
This is how YOU waste 70% of your time in YOUR business... Classic distortion and deletion: where was the distortion "leave with a deal" on the Brexit [...]
Tech success stories
https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakemorgan/2019/07/21/7-examples-of-how-digital-transformation-impacted-business-performance/#4a2e2e0e51bb
AI in Online retail: “should we do it – even if we can?”
This is a summary of the event on 17th July at the Shard London where we looked at how Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Retail industry and [...]
Axion AI impact on tech jobs
The big picture: But the impact may be larger than the response thus far. Per a recent report from Brookings, around 40% of the tasks done by computer programmers and [...]
House of Lords APPG AI education steering group
A brief summary from the House of Lords APPG AI education steering group last week. What separates us from machines; used to be obvious but now it's [...]
Dopamine and Tech addiction
Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, exploited a “vulnerability in human psychology”, explained Parker, Whenever someone likes or comments on a post or photograph, he [...]
State of AI 2019
https://www.slideshare.net/StateofAIReport/state-of-ai-report-2019-151804430?ref=https://www.stateof.ai/
Why does your opinion NOT matter?
How do "victim groups" fuel and unite political correctness, and create a hierarchy of victims that regardless of the illegality of their action trumps and silences an [...]
winningthinking.uk & nudge theory
Learning in a way that prompts leaders to think, reflect and act. With: freedom of choice; decisions; leveraging diversity and free will - winningthinking.uk & nudge theory [...]
e.g. recruitment: are your paradigms leading you into trouble? ?
In the context of increasing your gross margins and increasing your available time – consider these extraordinary stats: Humans are extraordinarily well programmed in avoiding taking new action, leaving whole industries being left [...]
Thinking and technology
Interesting Paul Perera. We cannot outperform our thinking? The greatest limitation is our thinking and being unaware of our flaws, there are some flawed mantras driving flawed thinking [...]
Why is the recruitment broken and why people are so angry with recruiters?
Is the recruitment broken and why people are so angry with recruiters? A summary from my post below with 850,000 views: intentionally provocative to test thinking. Is [...]
GV on why EQ is more important than IQ in recruitment
GV on why EQ / people skills is more important than IQ in recruitment https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6544747777774100480
What does your behaviour cost your business ??
What does your behaviour cost your business? In the context of increasing your gross margins and increasing your available time – consider these extraordinary stats: Source Stevenson/Farmer Government-commissioned review Oct [...]
An Eureka comment.. WT removes the obstacles that prevent employee engagement
After 15 years of implementing www.winningthinking.uk to realise immediate results, a client just shared a Eureka comment.. ? it removes the obstacles that prevent employee engagement... Bring [...]
The Hidden Business Bear Trap
The Hidden Business Bear Trap: Yesterday I met with an incredibly successful executive at an FTSE 30 client. (in the context that 85% of their employees are [...]
Never base strategy on threats. China show their hand….
Never base strategy on threats. China show their hand.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48377235
wise words “the grass is always greener where you water it…”
wise words "the grass is always greener where you water it..." https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05AQEOsYiOz_YtrA/1c2f63dad18a446eba939bac2a669504/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1559214000&v=beta&t=yzkld1oTxwpgjxpKL0C80203RxXJfrg45Ck7amWDmag hashtag#leadership hashtag#technology hashtag#technology hashtag#success hashtag#emotionalintelligence ovation hashtag#business hashtag#innovation hashtag#tech hashtag#culture hashtag#venturecapital
We are vastly underpaying for the products we needless buy?
We are vastly underpaying for (environmental damage that) the products we needless buy. https://4ocean.com/products/4ocean-bracelet To save the planet I think we need to vastly increase pricing and [...]
“If Fascism Ever Comes (to America), It Comes in the Name of Liberalism”
Ronald Reagan was right: "If Fascism Ever Comes (to America), It Comes in the Name of Liberalism"... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/25/identity-politics-dividing-britons-says-equality-chief?CMP=fb_gu& People are entitled to their views and free [...]
the digital intermediator of the sale will control the supply chain too?
https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05AQGmhDZbfvJuWg/d0077dadd19f4c8a8e4957c8483e70f4/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1559214000&v=beta&t=WKBaKKR5xjqYkoulN7N28eyqBAvo5zFDsdrBN689hn0 It seems clear that the digital intermediator of the sale will control the supply chain too? It seems obvious that these Chinese businesses will first trash [...]
SUCCESSFUL succession is key to creating a company that’s worth money?
https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4D05AQEpk7I1ujF3CA/665ba0f9f8f845da9425cbd40637d780/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1559214000&v=beta&t=4ZLd9a169fWjQkZWORrR_CGdUehic9N-VmOaMRgyIiU SUCCESSFUL succession is key to creating a company that's worth money? Yet even when "textbook" succession plans have been implemented in great businesses we have picked [...]
An insight into a robot’s mindset… but is this funny?
An insight into a robot's mindset... but is this funny? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbFh-EleSY as this video Tech and Ai centred businesses perfectly play to the Chinese attack type of [...]
Doug Conant’s type of winningthinking: Campbell Soup Turnaround!
http://www.leadershipfromthecore.com/doug-conant/
China retail – digitisation
A summary by Jeffrey Towson, these business models will be exported in due course https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05AQGmhDZbfvJuWg/d0077dadd19f4c8a8e4957c8483e70f4/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1559030400&v=beta&t=9z1MMt8sQ7As7MW0THYh-qGYe8kZ88vgV8bv2Hrv9mg
China buying UK aerospace
China buying up our aerospace component base is part of its long term strategic plan. I'm sure its bad strategy for the UK industrial infrastructure where we [...]
Successful marketing & social media
A lateral view. This is the basis of realigning the channel and digital marketing - w be found this humble test and adjust approach is key to [...]
Social media and suicide
As a father of 2 daughters: this is so tragic and irreversible? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/15/teenage-girl-kills-herself-after-instagram-poll-in-malaysia There is a fundamental flaw in tech leaders understanding of the human impact of [...]
intermediating profits
The new norm: “a perverse situation where the business of providing goods or services is significantly less profitable than the business intermediating its sale,” Skift 2016
Starling Bank – breakthrough or market damage?
Starling Bank is a breakthrough competitive model: its revenues only come from deposits and a model that takes no fees from transactions. Are they damaging their own [...]
Tech solutions and stress
Have you noticed how stressed people are becoming... it follows that increasing the tech mess is likely to increase: isolation; flawed thinking and underperformance so likely to [...]
An alternative perspective on capability
https://youtu.be/V4a7giVa2E0
How do your employees feel?
As a manager in my 20's, most feedback I received was genuinely threatening... Today a client... A Global Inc. is making good money but during the process, [...]
Start up and cash burn
yes, good interesting clear article. I would add in terms of acceptable cash burn for me, there is the start-up stage to get the infrastructure right then [...]
Glenville Walker Winningthinking.uk Business Breakfast
For client comments please have a look at these links: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6502131254660521984 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6502143601814966272
Google on leaders
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/heres-how-google-knows-in-less-than-5-minutes-if-someone-is-a-great-leader.html
Buffet and Consumer Branding
https://youtu.be/ZI9ZBIL_Uew Buffet on consumer
Do you love surprises?
In the context of increasing your gross margins and increasing your available time – consider this: Do you love surprises? Here are some surprises we have shone [...]
Who likes surprises?
In the case of the VW emissions scandal, Virgin Galactic explosion and Boeing 747 MAX issues - employees will have definitely known about the underlying issues? But [...]
The easiest people to dupe are ourselves?
The easiest people to dupe are ourselves? We are reliant on our peers to hold us to account? www.winningthinking.uk prevents this duping by immediately flagging up the [...]
Social media is causing mental illness
Social media is causing mental illness, and trashing family unity? Yet through fear and the tech mantras we accelerate AI etc. See how fear undermines our decision [...]
antidote to intolerance is forgiveness:
The antidote to intolerance is forgiveness: have you noticed without forgiveness you are hurt, angry and lose strategic clarity? The test of whether you have forgiven someone [...]
Tech in retail by IBM
A good pragmatic article on Tech in retail - I agree from the several retail turnarounds we have led, its back to basics, with technology as an [...]
Lets keep talking?
Lets keep talking its the means to keep businesses strategies and cultures healthy. Have you got the courage and skills to do so and does your culture [...]
Mobbing the action heros
Whilst we are all far from perfect - like crows mobbing a bird of prey - notice how hashtag#leadership with courage to act get vilified and mobbed [...]
Agile & innovative yeah?
Agile & innovative yeah? - we are extraordinarily good at avoiding taking NEW action? A few weeks back I ran a winningthinking.uk session with a big 4 [...]
Adding labels is perfect for distorting the truth
Notice how the flawed label "hard" misaligns the activity on Bxxxit? Cameron said vote IN or OUT we voted OUT, we voted for IN or OUT, there [...]
“Dupe Box Jury”
Executives how are you getting DUPED today? Are you interested to learn how you WILL get duped by Carillion and Patisserie Valerie type financial crises? And how: [...]
Chinas reverse takeover – “infrastructure investment”
Italy, Pakistan, France, Sri Lanka etc this is the Chinese reverse takeover... All under the lovely label of China's 5 phase strategic plan: "infrastructure investment"..! hashtag#chinahashtag#europeanunionhashtag#leadership notice [...]
A customer’s perspective is so valuable
During a new product launch, a customer's perspective is so valuable... hashtag#venturecapital hashtag#leadership hashtag#technology hashtag#globalization
Counter-intuitive solutions
Landing a space ship backwards is such a counter-intuitive solution, fundamental to reducing the cost of space travel. Exactly the same type of counter-intuitive thinking @Ken Gabriel [...]
Millennials – great they won’t put up with weak leadership
ts a bit late but its great our children don't put up with the awful leadership, cultures, environmental and tech mess we have created... and our kids [...]
China’s Infrastructure Investment!
In theory, everyone who takes part in this revived Silk Road scheme—a list now more than 70 countries long—benefits from it. Chinese companies plowed more than $15 [...]
BBC Interview: Ken Gabriel CEO of Draper: why the thinking on the US Stealth Fighter Program was the key strategic capability
BBC Interview: Ken Gabriel CEO of Draper: why the thinking on the US Stealth Fighter Program was the key strategic capability https://vimeo.com/324243271
The role of a CEO
Kaigham J. Gabriel is a legendary product innovator and entrepreneur. This is his advice on fulfilling his role as a CEO: "to provide resource and remove obstacles"... [...]
fear of failure
Kaigham J. Gabriel is a legendary product innovator and entrepreneur. This is his advice on innovation. He does not encourage failure, he discourages the fear of failure. [...]
dehumanising and disturbing?
This is dehumanising and disturbing> its clear to me this will further cause people to lose themselves and exasperate the current suicide crisis? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47442953
Interserve
Interserve was such an obvious target to fail after Carillion, what lessons did the leadership take from Carillion? 🙂 hashtag#leadership hashtag#resilience hashtag#culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47141828
China’s debt load is stalling their pillage
It's refreshing to see the basic economics catching up with Phase 2 of "China's infrastructure investment plans.." Their debt load should stall their global pillage...? hashtag#globalization hashtag#china [...]
Technology or customer first? Steve Jobs
This is where execution of hashtag#artificialinteligence is going wrong... Steve Jobs advice: "You've got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. You [...]
Chinese superplatforms
A great summary of how digital is enabling convergent business models. This is completely uprooting the traditional players and being led by China. Phase 5 of China's [...]
Giving!
Interesting UK stat: Of those with over £10m only 10% give anything to charity at all and on average this group give £240 each per year. I [...]
In weak companies politics wins
Funny thinking about "TMs Brexit deal" is that all it is doing is giving away our trade deal negotiating position, £39bn, assuring the EU 1 way free [...]
Lets celebrate success?
Eh UK - let's celebrate our successes? I learnt last week, that the UK, driven from Wales has a 9% market share of the £66bn global market [...]
Losing sight of the big picture…
Look how organised, resourced and laser focused China are on business success. The UK is falling behind and can't even do something simple like unshackle ourselves from [...]
Jordan B Peterson’s challenge for #HR is perfect
Jordan B Peterson's challenge for hashtag#HR is perfect... “The doctrines that are driving hashtag#hiring decisions, for example — any emphasis, for example, on hashtag#equity, or hashtag#equality of outcome — it’s unbelievably [...]
The Common Denominator of Success:
The Common Denominator of Success: 1. Successful people have formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do 2. Successful people are influenced by [...]
I am…
What's your answer to this question... "I am...? " Because we will never consistently do what we are not. So "I am..." or our identity drives everything [...]
the limits of you own or your organisations thinking
"People reach the limits of their own or their organisations thinking, well before they reach the limit of their own talents"... so people rarely exceed more than [...]
Time to thank to the fantastic companies that have helped us shape our capability.
Time to thank to the fantastic companies that have helped us shape our capability. This is some of the provenance of the award winning www.winningthinking.uk technology, the [...]
Political correctness. “Positive discrimination” is a falsehood
Political correctness. "Positive discrimination" is a falsehood because "positive discrimination" = "negative discrimination" for the others? It brings a flawed spotlight to discrimination that should not exist [...]
Are you to busy – exceeding your current thinking
If you are too busy: are you unconsciously misdirecting your team’s activity? Here is an interesting stat and opportunity. An experienced successful executive of one of the [...]
Does national women’s day INCREASE discrimination and division?
Does national women's day INCREASE discrimination and division?" Or Should we be reducing discrimination and recognising and celebrating the uniqueness of ALL of us: by being and [...]
Exceeding your thinking – consistently increase your gross margins by double digits
Here is an interesting stat: We consistently increase your gross margins by double digits yet you always THINK that this is impossible... "You can't exceed the limits [...]
Kier’s balance sheet
Kier's balance sheet looks like its heading for a trouble. The demise of a construction company's financial governance is highlighted by 1. over valuing work in progress, [...]
Why is preciously hiring for a company culture is a nonsense
Ms Winnet powerfully leverages satire to explain exactly why preciously hiring for a flawed company culture is a nonsense and why its 100% a leaders responsibility to [...]
Are you giving away cash and squandering time ??
Substantially increasing: gross margins; and available time are the new business battlegrounds? With increasing pace and disruption: it is becoming increasingly difficult to increase margins and productivity? [...]
Why does thinking determine our success?
Why does thinking determine our success? Because it has by far the highest cash return on investment of 45-110x. Why? " because people reach the limits of [...]
What’s your answer to this question… “I am…?
What's your answer to this question... "I am...? " Because we will never consistently do what we are not. So "I am..." or our identity drives everything [...]
The Common Denominator of Success
The Common Denominator of Success: 1. Successful people have formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do 2. Successful people are influenced by [...]
VC Pitch Deck checklist
https://www.enfoundery.com/top-5-pitch-killers-that-put-investors-off/
Flawed thinking – tech categorical lies “inevitable growth”
Inevitable growth - surveillance hijacked digital technology we have choice - although we are hooked? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002b8l
How is your well-being?
Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser How is your well-being? Your performance is entirely determined by your well-being and this isregardless of [...]
What does good look like?
https://vimeo.com/296391095 What does good look like? ... is a question that we all have our own unique answer to? For Carrie and her team, the outcome from [...]
AI ethics board set up – good news
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/stellar-new-board-appointed-to-lead-world-first-centre-for-data-ethics-and-innovation
EUCJ has case study parallel with free speech in business
We must reject Theresa Mays plan that puts the UK under the EUCJ rules... The EUCJ is dangerously flawed and threat to free speech... Beware of people [...]
The other downside of liberalism, the wrong people thrive
The other downside of liberalism, the wrong people thrive... www.winningthinking.uk is the breakthrough program that highlights the issue and provides you with the answer, best Tom
GRIT is a stronger indicator of success than IQ.
GRIT is a stronger indicator of success than IQ. www.winningthinking.uk creates grit: by removing the fear of: taking action; failure as well creating an immediate shortcut to [...]
are leaders no longer allowed to make mistakes…?
Paul Pester is a really capable open leader, are leaders no longer allowed to make mistakes...? . This is a really dangerous precedent that will hark back [...]
How can successful CEOs be weak leaders?
https://vimeo.com/288171442 and...... how is it possible great leaders find it so difficult to record video content 🙂 Some observations from August winningthinking.uk is the tool to [...]
Oh No I have won another #award. “CEO of the Year 2018”
Oh No I have won another hashtag#award. "CEO of the Year 2018" for my hard work and dedication to Icebreaker Executive Management. "Our 2018-year recipients have been [...]
Why we should develop our thinking in order to cope with #digital?
For your thoughts, our summary to explain why we have found we humans should develop our thinking in order to cope with hashtag#digital & hashtag#artificialintelligence enjoy Tom [...]
Why do we let AI destroying the fabric of society?
Just had a thought: as to why we might be letting hashtag#artificialintelligence destroy the fabric of society? Maybe the techies have never experienced worklessness and its disastrous [...]
Will you want to have a symbiotic link with AI or maintain your biological self?
Will you want to have a symbiotic link with AI or maintain your biological self? Elon Musk has given up warning the decision makers on the dangers [...]
Do you know how your business creates value?
Do you know how your business creates value? The paradox is if incremental value is achievable - the customer won’t see it. Can you convert your teams [...]
Retail – the last bastion – “the price fight”.
Diminishing hashtag#retail differentiation due to digital is creating the last bastion - "the price fight". The trend to more digitisation will make this worse and reduce gross [...]
the benefit of AI is that it will remove “low level work”?
One of the greatest misgivings about the benefits of AI is that it will remove "low level work" seen as meaningless roles . Low level roles are [...]
Generalisations and flawed thinking
Abit of practical psychology for you and what winningthinking to do... Fabricating the "'ism"related story to the "whiter than white" comment reflects the politically correct mental illness [...]
why is male suicide is on the rise?
Whats your view of why male suicide is on the rise? Analysis suggests it seems to be down to dehumanisation: the desexualisation of society; me too type [...]
Winningthinking.uk team / strategy day feedback
Carrie Osman is the phenom CEO Of Cruxy & Company. Here are her comments following our enjoyable winningthinking.uk day we ran with her and her tremendous exec [...]
Whilst Wonga broke some rules
Whilst Wonga broke some rules, and their business model was flawed this proposal from the church of England is utterly insane. When i ran a microfinance business [...]
the reality and nature of SOCIAL MEDIA
To realise an upside its important to face and manage the downside of technology... for example this is what research shows is the reality and nature of [...]
The root of the tragedy in the NHS
The root of the tragedy in the NHS (in my view) is certainly weak recruitment why?... because the selection process panders to the industry politically correct norms. [...]
political correctness creates a tyranny of tolerance?
Who disagrees that liberal'isms / political correctness creates a tyranny of tolerance? Forget the niceties of the business costs of liberalism, the implications on society have been [...]
Do you feel free to speak?
Do you feel free to speak? The OIC seem to be playing a significant role in preventing free speech. This is very serious because society, businesses, teams [...]
Cocaine… and then there was #socialmedia and #artificialintelligence..
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Normal people?
Whilst we have much to learn and improve on the www.winningthinking.uk process develops relationships by enabling the team to have a different discussion so that they get [...]
A privilege to lead the interimpartners www.winningthinking.uk masterclass
A privilege to lead the 45 minute www.winningthinking.uk masterclass this morning with some fab aerospace leaders. Thank you for the invitation @Gavin, I and delighted to share [...]
Free Speech? – Cern
This political correctness is irrational and deeply damaging.... freedom to speak is what keeps society healthy... this is the cost of speaking up or having a view [...]
What would happen if you viewed your team had an infinite ability?
What would happen if you viewed your team had an infinite ability? By giving people the space to do their work in their own way they can [...]
You have infinite ability
You have infinite ability: Join us on the the journey from Ordinarythinking to Winningthinking® Winning Thinking breaks through barriers to enhance cognitive strategy to accelerate the process [...]
Free speech? A cause for con-Cern…?
Yesterday someone was fired for sharing their views at a Cern academic conference... today we learn Marie Le Pen being accused of being insane for challenging terrorism. [...]
Mega company manipulation – will they get away with it?
It will be interesting to see if these mega companies who increasingly manipulate and control our lives are sustainable or if like Cambridge analytics they get found [...]
What are ASOS doing to reduce people buying clothes they don’t need
Nick Beighton what are ASOS doing to reduce people buying clothes they don't need? with 60% of clothes ending up in landfill within 1 year, surely stopping [...]
Free speech is central to human well being
https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C5605AQFjCtQ9jHEn0g/858afb44111741bfa8fcce00cd6da87b/feedshare-mp4_3300/1488578169071-zmy00q?e=1542733200&v=beta&t=Qk2wtlPijOR_VcI352sVQEyJgrEZ9j0e0rzyyxGnPM4, Free speech is central to human well being, healthy society and holding entities to account. Threats are polarisation of wealth and corruption. A reluctance to be [...]
Freedom of Speech and Mental Health
For society's health and to preserve our mental health we must preserve freedom of speech particularly if the subject matter is difficult. Let's preserve the right to [...]
Mental Health day
www.winningthinking.uk is our sincere contribution to mental health day. It reduces unproductive stress by creating an environment that aligns our actions with our beliefs providing for a [...]
Patisserie Valerie An extraordinary psychology cover up
Of all of the ridiculous 200 or so turnarounds icebreakerexec have led Patisserie Valerie is extraordinary: the board failing to recognise the signs that there was a [...]
Liberalism and integrity?
Liberalism creates a tyranny of tolerance; exactly the opposite of the intention. Free speech keeps society healthy even if it causes discomfort. Whilst i dont advocate swearing [...]
2018 Conference“Excellence in Leadership”. What does “excellence” look like?
Why attend? I was invited to attend the 2018 “Excellence in leadership” conference. It was a good diverse event. I attended for my personal development and to [...]
Does our action improve our human relationships?
200 company turnarounds later, one thing I am sure of is this: "Every action we take, should be bench marked against whether that action improves our human [...]
This is what a fear (irrationally) motivated solution looks like… #artificialintelligence
This is what a fear (irrationally) motivated solution looks like. Have you noticed how hard it is to speak up against despite the facts: 90% of hashtag#artificialintelligence [...]
Social media – wastes time
Its the manipulation, positive or negative reinforcement, reward and punishment that the social media companies have systemically designed their platforms to keep us hooked, or cause us [...]
So many are focused on “the what”. This is “the how”
So many are focused on "the what". This is "the how". Proven in all sectors, and any scenario, pressure tested and refined in crises. As well as [...]
how to mitigate the existential risk of #artificialintelligence
A special update, including some humour, some hashtag#artificialintelligence, some mediocre intelligence, how to mitigate the existential risk of hashtag#artificialintelligence and how to close the chasm in between... [...]
Whats your plan to stay on top of #artificialintelligence?
https://vimeo.com/295873980 Whats your plan to stay on top of hashtag#artificialintelligence? I think these are the macro challenges we face to stay in control : 1. can [...]
Elon Musk has given up on trying to stop #artificialintelligence. I
Elon Musk has given up on trying to stop hashtag#artificialintelligence. Its out of control because of our human flaws: MORE, fear driven decision making, and manipulation, makes [...]
Love in business is counter intuitive to business education,
Love in business is counter intuitive to business education, but we are love machines? Disagree: if you think business is about winning there will always be someone [...]
you can’t beat: INVESTING IN YOURSELF
Warren Buffett's advice "one investment you can't beat: INVEST IN YOURSELF." I am pleased to say we are now running winningthinking.uk sessions on a weekly basis. This [...]
Profitless convergent mobility business models will uproot the #automotiveindustry
Profitless convergent mobility business models will uproot the hashtag#automotiveindustry, they are owning and designing the vehicles. This is an unprecedented threat, that is difficult to know how [...]
The risks of regulating #artificialintelligence
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/The-risks-of-regulating-artificial-intelligence-algorithms The risks of regulating hashtag#artificialintelligence is that it is not feasible so we can't: bizarre logic, another attempt to justify carrying on with activity that has [...]
Winningthinking.uk book launch
I am not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing if you can summarise your life's learning into 35 minutes of video content or [...]
Retail the real impact of phase 1 digital
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/debenhams-store-closures-high-street-giant-will-close-up-to-50-shops-putting-4000-jobs-at-risk-after-a3971061.html%3famp. This is the real impact of phase 1 digital, reducing pricing so gross margins. Rob McCargow exactly how do you see these store level jobs [...]
Our “bias” is what makes us human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyanJ2h-9-g Our "bias" is what makes us human, and is not necessarily a bad thing. Its the source of our diversity. These different perspectives are what [...]
How long does it take to turnaround a business?
How long does it take to turnaround a business? icebreaker chairman John Webster just reminded me our record was 8 words. This question created an immediate breakthrough [...]
Corrupt auditing
What is the answer to the big4's corrupt auditing? Create an environment at all levels where people feel free to speak up. People have a very good [...]
Social media platforms are designed to manipulate us.
Social media platforms are designed to manipulate us. This misaligns our actions and beliefs and can cause people to lose themselves. Not to mention the waste of [...]
Capability development depends on delegation
Capability development depends on delegation: hand over -> think -> create own plan -> engage; take on more difficult tasks + grit To the contrary delegate + [...]
are Millennials coping?
The paradox here is that the millennial's are those who are least coping with this change and mess we have created for them?https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C5605AQFEuU6BSHtu4A/c2ed36459237478da4fdb211e9e1590d/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1542729600&v=beta&t=Qnewo1oGIzMnQWSbkj659QwmvTAALSbEFDavyRcnJi8
Political Correctness in our Corporates should we be concerned?
Is anyone else seriously concerned how much damage is being done to great UK businesses such as hashtag#Unilever through hashtag#politicalcorrectness? Political correctness is well proven to create [...]
China’s innovation
Super Smart and whilst Rome burns what are we doing in the UK, becoming overwhelmed with politically correct flawed responses to the challenges we face. The Chinese [...]
Do techies developing AI know what worklessness is like?
My hypotheses is that I don't think the techies developing hashtag#artificialintelligence have any idea how tough worklessness is and what marginalised people that don't care are like? [...]
AI fear driven by Microsoft
This is a great fear fuelled call to action. Regardless whether you act most still won't have a business or job by 2030. There is a strong [...]
Political Correctness…. the flaw… the antidote
This is my attempt to answer the biggest question for hashtag#transformationalleadership and hashtag#HRDs right now.... https://vimeo.com/298188006 ... and what does good look like? I have no [...]
the ultimate irony
In the ultimate irony, just a few days ago, the so-called European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld this same blasphemy law. The ECHR ruling is unspeakable. [...]
Waitrose Firing
Freedom of speech? No grace? hashtag#Politicalcorrectness gone bonkers? Inhuman? Not allowed to make hashtag#mistakes? Valuing hashtag#Diversity? What defines offence? Was this comment about Vegans hashtag#offensive? Creating fear [...]
check your ability to even consider something difficult
Here's something to check your ability to even consider something difficult... "This week, the un-elected judges of the European Court of Human Rights"... "chose hurt feelings over [...]
tried letting people be themselves?
Have you every tried letting people be themselves? Here's how we have leveraged individual diversity to consistently achieve award winning results. https://vimeo.com/298391904
Retail – the underlying threat
The underlying retail business threat - inflated property values and ongoing soft demand seems to be coming to the fore. Ian Woodley this might be the trigger [...]
The big threat from China
The big threat from China is that they see business as attack and dominate. They don't care about our rules, peoples welfare or in fact even making [...]
technology can only benefit society if it respects basic rights
"technology can only benefit society if it respects basic rights", "if we lose control of our data we lose control of our lives"... hashtag#digitaleconomy hashtag#artificialintelligence hashtag#leadership hashtag#ai [...]
AI governance?
My summary of the hashtag#artificialintelligence session from the House of Lords Parliamentary group tonight... 1 no one considering the macro risks, 2 we have already lost control, [...]
Professional Development Really?
This is week 5: when I observed how much my 12 year old daughter's rowing improves week on week, it reminds how much as adults our learning [...]
China and inward investment!
In the case of China in particular making countries including the UK open to inward investment is not always a good thing "There are growing concerns that [...]
Retail CVAs
I attended a "retail burial club event" last night relating to the effectiveness of CVAs in retail. My summary of the retail headwinds are as follows - [...]
Why do some companies thrive and survive yet others don’t?
Here is a summary of our findings to explain... "why some companies thrive and survive yet others don't?" That's all from Hollywood Today 🙂 hashtag#leadership hashtag#socialmedia hashtag#coaching [...]
WW1 and political correctness
I wonder if these guys would turn in their graves if they knew how we have submitted the UK's sovereignty to the EU's fascism, our values and [...]
the movement towards a transhumanist society
Writing in Psychology Today, Dr Massimo Pigliucci, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New York-Lehman College, believes that there is a necessary discussion society must [...]
An AI caused death
The use of hashtag#artificialintelligence here caused this patients death, another baseless tech application... yet "its inevitable?", the risk here is our stupidity to prevent us making sensible [...]
Leaving a legacy
Miller (1986) observed that people will “persist in an action when they perceive that they have personally chosen to do so.” The www.winningthinking.uk process enables individuals in [...]
the flawed mantra: “MORE”
Global stupidity since the 70's has been characterised by the obsession with the flawed mantra: "MORE". China's debt fuelled growth is not sustainable. When this collapses this [...]
The hidden costs of “MORE”
The hidden costs of "MORE", the sustainability impact of our excessive consumption is catching up with us. Its time to face the flawed mantra of MORE and [...]
Political correctness is the antithesis of searching out TRUTH
Do you agree that "political correctness is the antithesis of searching out TRUTH?" What keeps a business straight without striving to reach the truth?
Humanity and our biases
Our biases define our humanity and diversity hashtag#leadership
AI common themes surfacing
As these tools now develop, we are witnessing some common themes surfacing. Flexibility in these software functions often comes at the cost of either performance or ability [...]
Corporate Unintended consequences
This is what we have learnt from our engagement with mega successful tech startup execs and from the best plc turnaround techniques... How can corporate's & SME's [...]
Diversity and inclusion?
Do women really want parity with us men...? Diversity & inclusion has nothing to do with our race or sex etc. Even during the most traumatic business [...]
Are leaders and peers play acting
How engaged or productive will any employee be if their leaders and peers are play acting? I think whether its OK to be ourselves at work is [...]
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This is what a fear (irrationally) motivated solution looks like.
This is what a fear (irrationally) motivated solution looks like. Have you noticed how hard it is to speak up against hashtag#artificialintelligence, despite the facts: 90% of implementations [...]
Do our actions improve our human relationships?
200 company turnarounds later, one thing I am sure of is this: "Every action we take, should be bench marked against whether that action improves our human [...]
2018 Conference“Excellence in Leadership”. What does “Excellence” look like?
Why attend? I was invited to attend the 2018 “Excellence in leadership” conference. It was a good diverse event. I attended for my personal development and to [...]
The NHS core flaw is weak recruitment and worse procurement
The root of the tragedy in the NHS (in my view) is certainly weak recruitment why?... because the selection process panders to the industry politically correct norms. [...]
A great analysis of the downside of social media on society
Its important to face and manage the downside of technology... for example SOCIAL MEDIA. This is what research shows is the reality and nature of it... It [...]
Social Media – bears no sense to real relationships
How can social media be of any value if it makes no sense in the real world?
Why is Ind. Rev4 so different and why should we be concerned?
Definition of reckless: "heedless of danger or the consequences of one's actions; rash or impetuous." Exec Summary: This 2 minute video summarises the emerging digital driven trends [...]
Creating an unfair advantage: Part 2: become productive
Creating an unfair advantage: Part 2: become productive Last week a LBO investor said one of his investments was up for sale yet the CEO was pushing [...]
Part 1: revitalising a company’s profits
Creating an unfair advantage: Part 1: revitalising a company's profits I am delighted to say that over 30 organisations spanning banking, investment, VC , PE, industrial, professional [...]
“Lean and agile? or silence and inactivity?”
What is the impact of criticising your team for their actions as well as how they act? What would the impact on your staff be like, if you take this type [...]
winningthinking.uk – Our Story
winningthinking.uk - Our Story - Superman vs. Harnessing the latent power of your team to drive transformation A new client asked us what the difference is between our [...]
why is #socialmedia complete nonsense?
A great illustration of why #socialmedia is complete nonsense and creates nonsensical interaction ? https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05AQEE2J0gcSnUMQ/b23abc266b8d4ee381285096bc763a10/feedshare-mp4_500-captions-thumbnails/1507940118923-hysdc8?e=1536418800&v=beta&t=hgITl5w7lP-Acoz6ISQE2Y0VdBMDX9XelbjRZem2UMw
Do you intellectualise employee engagement?
"How on earth do your employees put up with this?" Do you intellectualise employee engagement? ...Your employees DON'T! Here is the reality of what goes on... “The main industrial project [...]
Our inability to “un-discover” things
#artificialintelligence... plays to our human vulnerabilities : 1. inability to "un-discover" things 2. inability to speak out against the raft of flawed mantras 3. fear of [...]
example of breakthrough business model
A great example of breakthrough business model - re-usable rockets, this is the logic of a sustainable company turnaround, sustainable because its difficult to replicate, so justifies [...]
what does good look like?
Whilst a few are flawed, most SMEs we work with have all the product and services to become very profitable - yet why do they make so [...]
The power in imperfection
A testimony below - my daughter has inadvertently been on the winningthinking.uk program for the last 12 years 🙂 Imagine if we achieved this perspective of [...]
AI can we moderate the mantra?
If we cant stop #artificialintelligence now, what chance we will have to moderate it later? The speed and uncertainty AI creates will render us unable to moderate [...]
Move from a threatening / alienated environment to high performance
This is a very powerful tool to move from a threatening / alienated environment to high performance. Getting the challenge and support right is the bedrock of [...]
How can we take our core business for granted?
Isn't it funny how we can take our core business for granted? Having pioneered the approach since 2006, the icebreaker executive approach to the governance, resourcing, [...]
Will mavericks and the less able be excluded?
If social data collection will be the basis on which decisions will be made: it follows mavericks and the less able being excluded from opportunities with no [...]
What drives you…. Do you have the courage to stand apart from others?
What drives you.... Do you have the courage to stand apart from others? https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C5605AQGaPA0CnNZunA/08cf01d839124894b6f50518dccd94ad/feedshare-mp4_500-captions-thumbnails/1507940118923-hysdc8?e=1536418800&v=beta&t=PE8jQXRlkGIFMjchBR-kEN0unSvby0yPur_i8k7bm2E
Ai – systemic risks and volativity
The automation of high-frequency trading has already created systemic risks, as highlighted by several runaway trading events, or "flash crashes," in recent years. Andrew Lo, a professor [...]
These are not Luddites complaining this time
What, I am amazed that the BOE / BBC are so incorrectly informed re the impact of AI on the fabric of industry and roles. There is [...]
Do you leverage #freespeech in your organisation?
Do you leverage #freespeech in your organisation to liberate innovation and high performance? https://youtu.be/h3UeUnRxE0E
What is the difference between fear and excitement?
What is the difference between fear and excitement? Do you think you are rational? It is crazy that humans think they are smart enough to control hashtag#artificialintelligence, [...]
The importance of the business experience
Jeff Bezos view of the difference between our analogue past and digital future : “in the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a [...]
What is business about?
What is business about? If business is about making profit and human relationships.... How can we be so stupid to pursue #digitalinnovation / #socialmedia / #artificialintelligence strategies [...]
Why are the people challenges are becoming increasingly difficult to resolve?
Our experience of resolving tech - FTSE - VC backed growth challenges suggests that the people challenges are becoming increasingly difficult to resolve YET critical to resolve [...]
Liberalism and fear
There are many inactive good people filled full of fear.? Along with recognising the link between liberalism and fascism... Ronald Reagan was a smart deep thinker? Do [...]
There is no such thing as a toxic employee?
Toxic employees - the perfect excuse for weak leaders to do nothing? There is no such thing as #toxicity in employees. Just different behaviours created by weak [...]
Why do the wrong people thrive in a tyranny of tolerance?
The other downside of liberalism, the wrong people thrive... www.winningthinking.uk is the breakthrough program that highlights the issue and provides you with the answer, best Tom
Wonga is a great example of how misaligned actions can be with the challenge
Contrary to the press Wonga serviced a legitimate product and market need. Yet flawed: 1. tech model undermining the customer relations as per Provident. 2. Flawed business [...]
GRIT is a stronger indicator of success than IQ
https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4D05AQEZRaeyEtE8PA/56f69b96ffd841daa5be441ccb97b5dd/feedshare-mp4_500-captions-thumbnails/1507940118923-hysdc8?e=1536415200&v=beta&t=pcL6v3RsoDabSdQ-C72EYgkhLV16mDXYB-dOnacv124 GRIT is a stronger indicator of success than IQ. www.winningthinking.uk creates grit: by removing the fear of: taking action; failure as well creating an immediate shortcut [...]
“Culture Change Takes Years!…” is now nonsense
"Culture Change Takes Years!..." is now nonsense.... Here's a comment from a high performing CEO whose team we worked with last week.... "A new day using winning [...]
Are leaders no longer allowed to make mistakes…?
Paul Pester is a really capable open leader, are leaders no longer allowed to make mistakes...? . This is a really dangerous precedent that will hark back [...]
How can successful #CEOs become weak leaders
https://vimeo.com/288171442 and...... how is it possible great leaders find it so difficult to record video content 🙂 Some observations from August winningthinking.uk is the tool to [...]
CEO of the Year 2018
Oh No I have won another #award. "CEO of the Year 2018" for my hard work and dedication to Icebreaker Executive Management. "Our 2018-year recipients have been [...]
Why is Winningthinking key to AI Strategy?
For your thoughts, this is our summary to explain why we have found we humans should develop our thinking in order to cope with #digital & #artificialintelligence [...]
AI and society
Just had a thought: as to why we might be letting #artificialintelligence destroy the fabric of society? Maybe the techies have never experienced worklessness and its disastrous [...]
Political Correctness and the flawed ‘isms
Wake up #politicalcorrectness? we are creating a numpty land? Whilst I certainty DON'T condone swearing the underlying madness is well communicated. The political correct isms whilst they [...]
The AI mantras
Its not a time to sit on the fence. I'd encourage the 37% of people that didn't know to consider the implications of AI on society? If [...]
Profitless Growth in China Zaopin
Evan Guo's - justification for internet companies NOT making money - "its a distraction and constrains infrastructure investment" ??https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C5105AQFfdGd_o9EYBw/b14c9b74217c4c929e14c5b0615717b8/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1533639600&v=beta&t=9Sp6vtIfsaG-V6GfhKPw_Tenqi9eQdEHSpCFI9Vtw2M
AI and human vulnerabilities
#artificialintelligence... plays to our human vulnerabilities : 1. inability to "un-discover" things 2. inability to speak out against the raft of flawed mantras 3. fear of [...]
The latent opportunity to transform SMES
Whilst a few are flawed, most SMEs we work with have all the product and services to become very profitable - yet why do they make so [...]
What does winningthinking look like?
A testimony below - my daughter has inadvertently been on the winningthinking.uk program for the last 12 years 🙂 Imagine if we achieved this perspective of [...]
AI & the existential risk
If we cant stop #artificialintelligence now, what chance we will have to moderate it later? The speed and uncertainty AI creates will render us unable to moderate [...]
Create an unfair advantage Part 2 “become productive”
Is the productivity gap down to the slow adoption of technology? No. Let me explain using these 3 recent war stories: Automotive manufacturer: “we have been through worse before (Chairman)” [...]
Creating an unfair advantage: Part 1: revitalising a company’s profits
Creating an unfair advantage: Part 1: revitalising a company's profits I am delighted to say that over 30 organisations spanning banking, investment, VC , PE, industrial, professional [...]
3 new on line mega trends
3 new on line mega trends from the mega platforms JD and Alibaba massive amounts of online data - new opportunities to interact unimarketing - tools to [...]
a good summary of the impact of social media
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6413832400941441024
In a Tyranny of Tolerance who suffers?
In a public sector tyranny of tolerance the whistle blower gets arrested and the perpetrators get away with the crimes, because liberalisation normalises doing nothing or in [...]
why will China dominate AI?
Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are worried China will soon overtake the U.S. in areas like artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles. Chinese tech start-ups face fewer regulatory [...]
Hubris in leaders
David Owen, a British physician and parliamentarian, has dubbed this phenomenon hubris syndrome, which he defines as a “disorder of the possession of power, particularly power which [...]
Googles Auto Machine Learning “ML for idiots”
Google already have a tool to use #machinelearning to idiot proof the #artificialintelligence tools from the word go. Whom will this change benefit? And what will happen to [...]
Liberalism and the tyranny of intolerance
https://youtu.be/y0LE7R_FHy0?t=411
Generalisations applied to people
These labels and negative generalisations applied to people are crippling the UK and are very unhealthy not to mentioning trashing these guys careers? what ever happened to [...]
JD’s China’s retail profitless growth model
JD's China's retail profitless growth model will create convergent service platforms that will be very tough to compete with. 1 JD has a lower cost structure by [...]
AI vs Racing driver
https://youtu.be/kh00GAx66sA
Man vs machine its time to develop our thinking to cope
Jack Ma is right we will never beat computers: So lets not kid ourselves #artificialintelligence will destroy civilised society and an environment that even the [...]
Is retail in crisis? or leadership mantra
Digital is no panacea, the online boys ASOS etc are not getting the basics right and making no money either, trashing their https://youtu.be/IN0tRevqrKw own market pricing. [...]
The rise of the learning culture
Another great summary The-Rise-of-the-Learning-Culture without a fresh solution... This is how a client summarised the winningthinking.uk program enables a learning culture ... (password win) https://vimeo.com/268788484
“Halos” create delusion
: in 2007, Phil Rosenzweig taught us about is the "Halo Effect": this is when a company’s sales and profits are up, people often conclude that it has [...]
Transform yourself alongside the business
This is the first leadership report in a long time that accurately reflects the challenges CEO's face to transform themselves alongside their business and makes sense. This [...]
The Power of Inclusion
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What would it be like to “Just Be You” at work? 1-5-18
What would it be like to “Just Be You” at work? Conversely is your team too frightened to challenge ‘accepted thinking’? Have you noticed fear is fuelling [...]
winningthinking.uk Update 30-4-18
This is our weekly update, with input from Corporates, VC banks, a Member of the House of Lords, and a law firm. "When was the last time [...]
The meaning and value of work ie contribution of people
Brilliant summary of the meaning and value of work ie contribution of people in the context of AI / technology etc #artificialintelligence #work #sustainabledevelopment https://youtu.be/C96usjZm4sg