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View Article  Shared Space:Or Why You Can't Outsource Thinking
Science fiction writer Douglas Adams has a wonderful notion in his novel Dirk Gently’s Holisitic Detective Agency. Imagine a future ...   more »
View Article  Simplify! The Yes/No Theory of Leadership and Business
Forget complexity. A vital part of the leader’s new agenda is to bring simplicity to complicated systems. My favourite champion ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking Going It alone
Speaking at large company events, I’m often approached by delegates who ask me for advice on leaving the corporate fold. ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking Work/Life Balance - More Imbalance, Please!
As a professional speaker and coach on creativity and innovation – which I call in my new book ‘re-thinking’ – ...   more »
View Article  Have A News Holiday!
So much of the news isn’t. New, that is. I love Bob Dylan’s observation, “I prefer old news.” There’s a ...   more »
View Article  Why 'Managing Change' Is History
The history of business is the rise and fall, ebb and flow of corporate empires. Likewise with the ideas that ...   more »
View Article  Wordsworth 2
There’s a large graffiti ‘installation’ by a canal near my Oxford house. It reads: ETHNIC CLEANING – BEWARE!

It’s fascinating ...   more »
View Article  You, Me, Us – Re-thinking Relationships
‘All has to do with loving and not loving,’ observed the mystic Rumi several centuries ago. More recently, it’s been ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking After The World Cup
“Are you enjoying the World Cup?” my sweetheart asks, sweetly. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, but the wrong one, as ...   more »
View Article  Déjà Vu – All Over Again
England’s departure from the World Cup at the quarter final stage is an expected agony. Our nemesis (again) is Luiz ...   more »
View Article  Your Alternative Guide To The World Cup
So you’ve noticed it’s on? Love it or hate it, but there’s no hiding place. My son, currently on his ...   more »
View Article  If You Liked The Da Vinci Code ...
The Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter and Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal are conspicuous in their absence from this site. Except for ...   more »
View Article  The Re-think Alternative To Book Clubs
. . . is to explore music with friends instead. To me, there are few things more fun and stimulating ...   more »
View Article  The Re-think Awards
The Re-think Project is launching its online awards to celebrate and learn from great re-thinks, large and small. In time, ...   more »
View Article  How To Watch The World Cup
For the press, the World Cup is like Christmas. Half of them write blistering articles attacking the English manager, the ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking The World Cup
The World Cup is clearly more about the foreplay than getting down to the real thing. More column metres and ...   more »
View Article  What's Your Place To Be?
Nick Drake, the long lost singer-songwriter hailed by many young musicians today as a powerful influence, sings a beautiful, wistful ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking As Creative Stealing
A fashionable phrase in business today is ‘steal with pride.’ You could say that stealing is true benchmarking when done ...   more »
View Article  Re-thinking Wordsworth – The power of language
In Re-think I advocate having a Dictionary of Word Origins as your bathroom reading. Not only will this impress the ...   more »
View Article  Re-think Targets - Write In with Yours!
You may subscribe to the idea that Modern Life Is Rubbish (an album by Blur), but does it have to ...   more »
View Article  'Green Wing' - Review
Green Wing
UK TV – Channel 4


Hoscom is, apparently, the new word for a hospital comedy. The genre didn’t ...   more »
View Article  What Is A Re-think?
As an Oxford mis-educated lawyer, I’m meant to ‘define my terms’. As a free thinker, I refuse to do so, ...   more »