No Use Lion About It
An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud – when the creature started barking in front of visitors. Chinese media reports…
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. …
China Crisis
In both one to one leadership coaching and the group courses that we run, a common source of angst shared by the more ‘mature’ managers is the alarming sense…
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…
Life on Mars
In a recent general communication, Council staff in Carlisle (a town in the North of England) were instructed to clock-out if they want to talk about the weather,…
Kung Fu for Business
Whilst we may not be a Jet Li or Bruce Lee, this kind of philosophy as applied to business leadership began to enable us to recognize that what we do as Management…
The ‘Not so Local’ Bank
The posturing over future banking regulations continues to make headlines. The latest episode in the UK sees HSBC threatening to move its Head Office to the Far…
No butts, just maybe……….
So here at Zeitgeist we were scanning the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research web site only to come across a fabulous piece of research involving the…
The Scrap Trap
With the impending end of the various car scrappage schemes in Europe and other countries of the world, comes the question of what car sales will look like in 2010.…
Freedom, no compromise
Google’s announcement that it is considering pulling out of China raises some interesting questions and no easy answers. Some background – in 2006 when Google…
Climate for Change
As we hear again today that police and protestors have clashed at the Copenhagen Summit, it is clear that global warming still arouses passions - although being…
Bull in a China shop
China’s plans to invest in Alberta’s oil sands has certainly got the chat rooms alive with various theories around the Chinese motives. From my scan of the…