The Data Dilemma
The strategic impact on companies of the exponential technological rate of change is both extensive and fundamental. How can you plan properly in an environment…
Vive la Révolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, commonly known as Industry 4.0, appears to be changing the way businesses function. Organizations must decide how and where to…
Caution, Learners Ahead
It’s a fact and contrary to certain prejudices and misconceptions, employees can learn to behave in new ways. However, people learn only if they are motivated…
Pause Before You Pounce
We all face multiple challenges in our work and leadership roles – impossible deadlines, missed budgets, angry customers, politically driven colleagues, remotely…
Alone Again
This time fifty years ago man set foot on the moon and currently China is on the dark side of the moon with an unmanned vehicle. This reminded us of Al Worden, perhaps…
What’s in a Label?
As regular readers know, we have issues with the labels that people give others – labels make it too easy to put someone or a group of people in a box. It is also…
Insanity Check
In our daily interactions with clients, we encounter many different leaders in all disciplines and generally these individuals are very determined people. They are…
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…
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…
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…
Blown out of all Proportion
Steven McCormack is a lucky fellow indeed. A trucker from New Zealand, Mr McCormack is currently recovering in a local hospital after having been blown up – literally. To…
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…
The Adjustment Bureau
"... if you have done a thorough and rigorous job determining your strategy and have been diligent in developing an execution plan for that strategy then the art…
Innovate or Die
Nokia, one of the giants in mobile technology is facing a crisis or, as Stephen Elop the Finnish company’s CEO puts it, “we are standing on a ‘burning platform’…
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,…
Gesundheit!
An interesting quote, but here at Zeitgeist we subscribe to the principle that success in your career or in business comes from not just one but three key ingredients…
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…
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…
Improbable Awards
The Ig Nobel awards are now in their 21st year and here at Zeitgeist we look forward to this whacky awards ceremony every year. The awards are the result of the…
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…