There’s a chap who lives near me who is something of a local legend. While he’s arguably not awesome at actually finishing off his myriad great ideas, John is widely regarded as the village visionary. He was the first…

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This week I had reason to use the saying about canaries in coal mines. For those who aren’t aware of the saying, or who haven’t spent time finding out about the fascinating coal mining industry, here’s a teaser. Back…

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I’m sitting at home in the midst of a Level 4 lockdown pondering about just how much modern life gets disrupted by external factors. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted so many things: our ability to travel at will, global…

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Helmuth von Moltke was a German field marshal, otherwise known as Moltke the Elder. His contribution to military (and, by extension, business) thinking lay in his belief in developing a series of options for battle instead of a single…

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In the last few weeks, my LinkedIn media feed has inexplicably been populated by technology companies “going public.” These companies have reached the seeming Holy Grail of existence, where they are big enough to justify listing on a public…

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The area I live in was the historical site of the Glenmark Station. The Glenmark station was at one time the largest sheep run in New Zealand and encompassed an area of some 150,000 acres. The founder of Glenmark…

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I’m in constant fear of getting old. While I spend much of my time joking with my running mates that I’m an old, sad, broken man, I’m pretty lucky that, touch wood, I can still head out for a…

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As legend has it, Isaac Newton sat under an apple tree, only to have an apple fall on his head. From this bruising experience, Newton went on to formulate his theories around gravity and, in doing so, moved ahead…

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I spent my formative years enjoying the genius writing of Douglas Adams. DNA, as he was known, was a superb writer, environmentalist, technologist and atheist who was taken from the world far too soon. Adams penned such masterpieces as…

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Like many of my generation, I spent countless hours listening to the enchanting wailing of Alanis Morisette. Anthemic singer/songwriter star from the late ’80s and ’90s, Morisette wrote such classics as You Know and Head Over Feet. Most impactful,…

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