by Guy | 12 Apr, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
The previous post showed how technology is enabling location independence for the workforce for the first time since the Industrial Revolution created the need for urbanisation. Smart devices, such as smartphones and powerful tablets, are providing people with...
by Guy | 5 Apr, 2013 | Business - General, Cities, Lifestyle, Productivity, Strategy, Technology, Working From Home
There’s a revolution under way that is gaining momentum, and yet doing so in a way that although we scarcely notice the changes from day-to-day, when we look back a few years we can see they’re enormous. This revolution is in the way we work and live. Ten years ago,...
by Guy | 11 Aug, 2012 | Business - General, Lifestyle, Recession, Upturn
An interesting phenomenon has hit Britain over the past 2 weeks – the traditional British reserve has been replaced with enthusiasm and a sense of national pride I’ve not seen here before. What’s more – the normally omnipresent negativity about almost everything (not...
by Guy | 18 Oct, 2011 | Business - General, Lifestyle, Productivity, Technology
One thing you can be sure about in the IT industry – change. Lots of it, fast and often in unexpected directions. After 20 years of PCs in various forms increasingly ruling our lives, getting smaller, quicker, more capable software, and so on, suddenly there’s a...
by Guy | 25 Aug, 2011 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, Leadership, Lifestyle, Non-Executive Directors, Productivity
A fascinating piece by John Tierney in the NY Times explored the concept of “Decision Fatigue,” concluding that people faced with making a number of decisions do so less well as the day wears on. In studies with Roy Baumeister, a clear correlation was shown between...
by Guy | 10 Aug, 2011 | Business - General, Cities, Economy, Leadership, Lifestyle, Productivity, Technology, Working From Home
Many of you will have come across the various forms of the “Did You Know?” or “Shift Happens” slide shows over the past decade or so – there are several versions on YouTube, of course. Regardless of how accurate you believe the figures presented to be, the facts of...
