I want to make my business stronger so I seek to break it, every day. Anything that isn't doing as well as it should needs to be understood so that I know the cause of failure. Every time I fix a failure the business is stronger.

I make mistakes too, mistakes are when I let failures repeat, when I know that something does harm yet I let it harm again anyway. That's a mistake. I work to minimise the mistakes so that they happen less often. Or not at all.

Failures help because they bring new learning, mistakes (repeating failures) only teach you that you haven't sorted that problem yet, and that you have let resources and money slip away in error.

More failures, fewer mistakes....

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Scandals, Ethics, and rebuilds

February 16, 2012
In many industries and professions scandals come along from time to time, they usually leave a legacy of change and they may leave lasting damage or recognition that an ill has been found and resolved.

InsuranceIn my industry of Insurance perhaps the ...

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Racism in Football...

February 11, 2012
In a week that has seen Terry stripped of the captaincy, Capello resign and Suarez fail to shake Evra's hand and so create a storm at Old Trafford we must begin to wonder if football is now an 'institutionally racist' organisation.

How would you resol...

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Is privacy a thing of the past?

February 7, 2012
When we take a picture, and it flows to the other devices we own over the internet, when we share it on Twitter, or instagram, when the bits flow to and from the cloud, encrypted or not, do others who come across the data in those places share it on, c...

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Why?

January 28, 2012
Why do you do what you do?

For years I worked managing big project teams to deliver big corporate things, IT systems, products, services, Adminstrative improvements, customer service initiatives etc. I saw stress, I saw pain, I saw the lines of age ap...

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Inquisitive, enquiring and curious, or definitive, demanding, and certain

January 20, 2012
I've been watching how people engage with new (to them) products and services for some time in the context of helping businesses to build collaborative relationships with their customers. Understanding how to react and interact with the reactions and ...

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WarHorse - A West End triumph.

January 19, 2012
I do love the experience of the theatre, always. Tonight I was blown away. I thought that I might be and I wasn't disappointed. Geoff Kirkwood, visiting from Australia, and I shared some time, a meal and the play, and then the mad dash to Paddington to...

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The lessons of sinking ships for Collaboration - We need MAGGIE

January 18, 2012
I've been watching the news over the last few days with increasing surprise and sadness at the loss of life on the Costa Concordia, and the apparent dereliction of duty of the captain. I've also been thinking about the lessons for us all in terms of c...

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Leading through uncertainty.

January 10, 2012
There's an interesting debate in this blog about whether leadership should be all about direction and certainty or whether good leaders manage uncertainty.

Here's a couple of historic examples:
Churchills' announcement to Parliament at the start of WW...

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Social, Networking, Dating and STD's

January 7, 2012
One thing we all know is that casual dating and casual sex caries with it a risk of catching a sexually transmitted disease. Unpleasant at best, fatal at worst. It all arises from doing too much too soon with strangers who are prepared to do the same. ...

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