Transformation is complex; is an excuse, not a reason. Whether digital, cultural, employee or business, every time I ask, the excuse for not doing anything is complexity and not knowing how to start. Keep It Simple Stupid, or KISS is the solution. A business requires effective but not always collective…

Marcus Aurelius said, “The universe is change, life is understanding.” Today’s news catastrophizes all aspects of AI, with warring factions considering AI an opportunity or a threat. — The internet or email did not exist for my two and a half jobs. The businesses were large, profitable multinationals, and the main difference between then and now was a propensity to hop on a flight for a day for a meeting in Canada. Business Class was the same price…

When I fast-track the getting-to-know-you process when I meet someone professionally by connecting on LinkedIn, I often get the response, “I have never met someone who is a CEO and a poet before.” By profession, I am an engineer with an MSc in management, specialising in organisational behaviour — like…

Today, the 11th of 11th, 2023, I reached 1111 subscribers for my blog posts on LinkedIn and Medium. — Thank you. Your feedback and comments have been constructive on my journey to communicate leadership lessons that have guided my career and kept me from drowning. Some of my colleagues sharply disagree when I say that the best I can do as an engineer is not screw up. This appears…

Before he died in 1990, my father asked me if I would like his watch. I did not wish to appear ghoulish and refused, which I regretted for years as he replaced his gold Omega Seamaster with something that was easier to wear. Regret is the counterpoint to love as…

For those whose school days are a little hazy, Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), an English scientist and mathematician…

The comic song by Eric Idle for the ending of the 1979 movie Life of Brian can be regarded as a perfect example of the Nietzschean philosophy of Amor fati. Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as “love of fate” or “love of one’s fate”. It…

So many diet books can be reduced to four words, “eat less, exercise more”. — Of course, this may achieve your desired beach body but would leave the author bookless and broke — so most books are bulked out to around 200 pages and promise to help you achieve the same outcome by selective food group consumption or abstinence. Yesterday, I read a 2006 article…

We negotiate everything every day — but mostly we are not conscious of these negotiations we call living. Negotiating takes time and time is money — so we tend to rush to a resolution which may be sub-optimal. I have become conscious that I have been negotiating four times in…