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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
A Bite of the Apple
Apple shareholders this week rejected demands that the company disclose a succession plan for the temporarily absent Steven Jobs who announced in January that he…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Taking IT to the Limit
According to a survey by networking firm Cisco, 41% of workers break corporate IT policies, saying that "they need restricted programs and applications to get…
Dazed and Confused
In our line of work we use surveys widely – often 360 degree assessments, general employee engagement surveys or corporate diagnostic surveys which look at the…
The Knowledge
This simple experiment could suggest that as computer software becomes easier to use, making complicated tasks easier, we risk losing the ability to properly learn…
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…