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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…

Optimize Blog August 4, 2011

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…

Optimize Blog July 21, 2011

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…

Optimize Blog May 19, 2011

Kill Switch Engaged

Recent events in Egypt have been fascinating and depending on your point of view are either good or bad for the stability of the Middle East. Ultimately time will…

Optimize Blog February 16, 2011

Born not Made?

Whilst we are sure many of you have already determined to hit the gym more frequently in 2011 as part of your New Year’s resolutions, perhaps you hadn’t considered…

Optimize Blog January 4, 2011

Giving a Fig about Pudding

In 1644 the British Parliament, in a demonstration of austerity far more severe than anything suggested by the current batch of economists, decreed that Christmas…

Optimize Blog December 21, 2010

Flight of Fancy

The Harriers will be decommissioned in 2011 to be replaced by the Joint Strike Fighter by the end of the decade. Axing the Harrier is set to save £450m over the…

Optimize Blog December 15, 2010

Paint it Black

For many US families, it's a Thanksgiving tradition as important as turkey stuffing or pumpkin pie: rise before the crack of dawn the morning after the holiday,…

Optimize Blog November 26, 2010

Generation R

“First there was Generation X and Y, now there is Generation R,” Gill Plimmer wrote in The Financial Times: “a term coined to describe frustrated professionals…

Optimize Blog October 8, 2010

Paying the Piper

As countries drag themselves out of the recession, the spectrum of accusations and recriminations becomes ever more broad and colorful. Criticism of the level and…

Optimize Blog September 16, 2010

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…

Optimize Blog September 3, 2010

Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all

The latest financial news from the Eurozone is troubling as Germany breaks ranks and acts independently to introduce additional regulation.  Now, we’ve discussed…

Optimize Blog May 20, 2010

Boxing Clever?

However, today we hear of some fantastic lateral thinking – way out of the box – although like many such ideas the implications can be unpalatable. The left…

Optimize Blog March 4, 2010

GM Humming a different tune

From a corporate strategy standpoint it is actually good to see GM taking the tough decisions. With Hummer, as they did with Saab, GM has explored options, come…

Optimize Blog February 25, 2010

Oil in troubled waters

Echoes of 1982 are starting to reverberate around the UN as Britain and Argentina once again raise the ante on sovereignty around the Falkland Islands.

Optimize Blog February 22, 2010

Lean times at Toyota

So what has gone wrong at Toyota?  For the past couple of decades Toyota has been held up as the paragon of quality control and their Lean process has been copied…

Optimize Blog February 4, 2010

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.…

Optimize Blog January 26, 2010

The Future Starts Here…

Charles F. Kettering once said, “We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there”. As we head into the…

Optimize Blog January 4, 2010

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…

Optimize Blog December 17, 2009

Saving the “General”

Those of you following the Zeitgeist blog will know that we’ve been keeping an eye on General Motors and their attempts to rescue the ailing giant.  The news…

Optimize Blog December 4, 2009