Stepping off the plane on to the tarmac it feels like I’m stepping into a film set.  A bright red Bond helicopter flies low overhead, several others taxi into position nearby. This place is full of purposeful activity.  Yet that is not unusual for this commute to work. The reason […]

Sounds great doesn’t it - Let’s have a bright shiny strategic goal. An eye catching challenge, A mountain top to climb. Something to rally the troops around. Many of the strategy projects I work on start like this;  The leadership team has a sense of unity around the destination, they have something […]

In the dash for new energy sources, particularly in the UK we seem to be finding more shale gas than oil, for example the BBC reports – http://bbc.in/19HchNC. Have you wondered why there seems to be more gas than oil? Oil exists underground. It was made there when organic rich […]

Comparison of Shale Gas and Kerosene powered aircraft. The copyright owner (Adrian Nixon) grants unrestricted use of this image provided you quote the source. The current fracking boom in the USA and elsewhere is creating new supplies of fossil fuels. In particular, Shale Gas is being found in larger quantities […]

We are getting the hang of facilitating mixed virtual and physical groups. We are innovating with small but significant incremental improvements. Tick Box – created by Rawich This group has people who attend physically, we also have people attending from all over the UK and also from Continental Europe. Readers […]

Tim recommended we take a look at Join.me as a facilitation tool. So we did. Having played with the free version… for a while we have come to the conclusion it is pretty good for getting your message out there. However, for the sort of physical / virtual meetings we […]