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A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing

Dec 18, 2017
5 min

A Heavy Price Tag on Doing Nothing

The business world is a bewildering, fast-moving place right now. But don’t fall into the trap of bunkering down and doing nothing, because this will cost you in the long run, says Kevin Phillips The largest enemy of change and leadership isn’t a “no”, it’s a “not yet”. “Not yet” is the safest, easiest way to forestall change.’ – Seth Godin On a recent trip I took to New Zealand, the Auckland airport was closed down and its operations curtailed when the pipeline delivering j

Give Inertia the Boot

Dec 7, 2017
2 min

Give Inertia the Boot

Have you noticed that problems are solved and decisions are made differently today, especially by millennials? What’s the first thing that they do – and you probably do too, even if you are definitely pre-millennial? They Google it, of course. Back in my day, pre-Google, we’d probably think about what we’d done before in similar circumstances, perhaps consult whichever was the prevailing canonical guide on the topic – updated at least once a year – and maybe phone a friend. O