Are you influential?
Personal Influence is a rare but extremely desirable commodity, especially in an increasingly competitive commercial world. Recognizing the critical value that enhanced …
Inside the Matrix
We believe that everyone works in a matrix – we are all like Keanu Reeves! We find that the majority of organizations operate in two dimensions: the dimension…
May 2015: Optimize Launches Affiliate Program
Over the past 5 years Optimize Consulting has grown into an organization with a presence around the globe, with operations in Vancouver, Calgary, United Kingdom…
Hot Under the Collar
A British doctor has become the first person out of 300 intrepid gastro-nuts to finish the world’s hottest curry at a UK restaurant, which has the scary name…
A Dogs Life
A charity in New Zealand is teaching rescued dogs how to drive a car……this is not an April 1st blog, this is in fact really happening. No, really. The canine…
More, Moore, More
In 1961, one could buy a Ferranti computer for the princely sum of $360,000. Your spanking new computer would take up the whole room and have a memory of 1K. A typical…
How to be a High Flyer
As we all saw recently, via very dramatic high resolution film coverage, Austrian Felix Baumgartner leaped out of a capsule 39km (24 miles) above the Earth. The…
Passion Fruit
Brazilians are known to take their soap operas or novelas seriously, but one in particular has even surpassed another national passion by exceeding the audience…
Hanging on the Telephone
So the mail arrives and you lazily sort through the mix of flyers, assorted periodicals and bills as you drink your morning coffee. Then you open your telephone…
Pass the Remote
According to the tech experts, data-driven innovation enabled by advances in global communications infrastructure is going to force through some significant changes…
Smarter not Harder
This week sees a major milestone for Nokia and its Chief Executive, Stephen Elsop. Mr Elsop has had a rocky start to his tenure at the top of Nokia since his famous…
Painting by Numbers
Performance is usually measured as a combination of ability and motivation. In the case of Spanish amateur restorer Cecilia Gimenez there appears to have been plenty…
Risky Business
Some people just don’t get a lot of luck. Take for instance the Norwegian driver who, whilst making his way along a country road late one night recently, was confronted…
Missing the Point
Microsoft recently reported the first quarterly financial loss in its history. The reason was a big acquisition gone sour. Microsoft had to write off more than $6bn…
No If's, Butts or Maybe's
Many of us are confronted on a day to day basis with being tied to a desk, sat in front of our computers wading through vast amounts of data trying to execute in…
A Half-Full Glass
A study, published in Nature Neuroscience, suggests the brain is very good at processing good news about the future. Scientists at University College London said…
Emotional Olympics
As we count down to another Olympic games we can start to think about watching those elite athletes lining up for their event – the culmination of many years of…
Water Wings
A mosquito’s tiny, low-weight body is the key to its ability to survive flying in the rain, according to a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The…
Supergran
As leaders we are required to step up and be counted. When the music stops everyone is looking at you as the leader to step up and take control, provide direction…
Fried Chicken
You will be familiar with many of the names of the great astronauts in history – Armstrong, Aldrin, Shepard to name just a few. But there is one name that you…