Embracing the Imposter
Way back in 2008 the New York Times ran a great article on managers and professionals who suffer from feelings of fraudulence or inadequacy at work and we still…
Soft is Hard
Making organizational change stick for performance improvement initiatives is difficult. Different functions with different priorities and often distinct cultures…
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
On the tenth anniversary of the launch of Google, the company has been awarded a US patent for the ‘self driving car’. The intellectual property rights relate…
Zeros to Heroes
The worst soccer team in the world has won their first game…ever! The US protectorate of American Samoa battled to a 2-1 victory over Tonga, after 30 straight…
History Lessons?
We've often said in this blog that 'change is the new normal', so we thought this brief list might be of interest: A volatile financial and economic crisis. …
Recruitment not working?
This week’s guest blogger is leading human capital strategist, Mike Palmer: Recent research indicates that even the very best employment advertising is viewed…
Perestroika, Pigs and Lipstick
In an interesting interview in The Guardian this week the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev makes some interesting comments about his time in office and more…
The Past has Passed
...having given this ongoing debate some thought, we got to thinking about how much time is spent looking to the past in business and wondering if our allocation…
Navigating Choppy Waters
Here at Zeitgeist we’re big fans of the ‘great outdoors’ and particularly appreciate the beautiful and rugged scenery in Canada. One of the best…
Warning Signs
The 'Holy Island' of Lindisfarne, is located just off the coast of Northumberland in England. The hugely popular tourist destination attracts thousands of visitors…
I Go or MeeGo
So Nokia loses another technology chief – their fourth in five years. Nokia says that he left for personal reasons but the Finnish press are saying that he left…
Possibly Impossible
Quality assurance in examination papers probably doesn’t get a lot of thought in general, after all how hard can it be to set questions based on a given curriculum…
Melon Mayhem
An intriguing story from China hit the news this week as a result of acres of watermelons exploding one by one! Interestingly China has long approved the usage of…
Time for a Change
No one could possibly accuse the Samoans of not thinking big or letting themselves be swayed from change just because it may present a few challenges. This time…
The Worm in the Apple
Apple is once again under fire over its products and, specifically, the management of collected data... However, it now turns out that this was a ‘bug in the system’…
The Blame Game
Today, on the first anniversary of the Macondo Well tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, when eleven workers sadly lost their lives, BP issued law suits in excess of $80billion…
Embracing the Imposter
Those of you old enough to remember the classic Commodore 64 may be excited to hear that it is making a return. The good news is that the clunk has gone and inside…
3D’s and Wannabee’s
For the launch of the 3DS, the world's first glasses-free 3D hand-held games console, Nintendo pulled out all the stops to make sure that demand was high and lines…
Keeping it Real
The future for all you frustrated rock gods out there is looking promising. Until now the road to becoming a rock legend has been a long and arduous one - the prospect…
There's no 'I' in Team
We're sure most of you are familiar with Tuckman’s model around team dynamics or perhaps have read Lencioni’s excellent book on the dysfunctions of teams but…