Nigel Barlow's Blog

Shared Space:Or Why You Can't Outsource Thinking

blog1330479 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:48:21 +0100

Science fiction writer Douglas Adams has a wonderful notion in his novel Dirk Gently’s Holisitic Detective Agency. Imagine a future ...

Simplify! The Yes/No Theory of Leadership and Business

blog1330479 — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:40:43 +0100

Forget complexity. A vital part of the leader’s new agenda is to bring simplicity to complicated systems. My favourite champion ...

Re-thinking Going It alone

blog1330479 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:50:23 +0100

Speaking at large company events, I’m often approached by delegates who ask me for advice on leaving the corporate fold. ...

Re-thinking Work/Life Balance - More Imbalance, Please!

blog1330479 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:47:50 +0100

As a professional speaker and coach on creativity and innovation – which I call in my new book ‘re-thinking’ – ...

Have A News Holiday!

blog1330479 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:35:56 +0100

So much of the news isn’t. New, that is. I love Bob Dylan’s observation, “I prefer old news.” There’s a ...

Why 'Managing Change' Is History

blog1330479 — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:03:54 +0100

The history of business is the rise and fall, ebb and flow of corporate empires. Likewise with the ideas that ...

Wordsworth 2

blog1330479 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:18:52 +0100

There’s a large graffiti ‘installation’ by a canal near my Oxford house. It reads: ETHNIC CLEANING – BEWARE!

It’s fascinating ...

You, Me, Us – Re-thinking Relationships

blog1330479 — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:06:07 +0100

‘All has to do with loving and not loving,’ observed the mystic Rumi several centuries ago. More recently, it’s been ...

Re-thinking After The World Cup

blog1330479 — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:00:47 +0100

“Are you enjoying the World Cup?” my sweetheart asks, sweetly. It’s a perfectly reasonable question, but the wrong one, as ...

Déjà Vu – All Over Again

blog1330479 — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:24:20 +0100

England’s departure from the World Cup at the quarter final stage is an expected agony. Our nemesis (again) is Luiz ...

Your Alternative Guide To The World Cup

blog1330479 — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:56:05 +0100

So you’ve noticed it’s on? Love it or hate it, but there’s no hiding place. My son, currently on his ...

If You Liked The Da Vinci Code ...

blog1330479 — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:09:09 +0100

The Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter and Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal are conspicuous in their absence from this site. Except for ...

The Re-think Alternative To Book Clubs

blog1330479 — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:59:28 +0100

. . . is to explore music with friends instead. To me, there are few things more fun and stimulating ...

The Re-think Awards

blog1330479 — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:37:41 +0100

The Re-think Project is launching its online awards to celebrate and learn from great re-thinks, large and small. In time, ...

How To Watch The World Cup

blog1330479 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:18:54 +0100

For the press, the World Cup is like Christmas. Half of them write blistering articles attacking the English manager, the ...

Re-thinking The World Cup

blog1330479 — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:47:14 +0100

The World Cup is clearly more about the foreplay than getting down to the real thing. More column metres and ...

What's Your Place To Be?

blog1330479 — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:41:13 +0100

Nick Drake, the long lost singer-songwriter hailed by many young musicians today as a powerful influence, sings a beautiful, wistful ...

Re-thinking As Creative Stealing

blog1330479 — Tue, 23 May 2006 09:45:11 +0100

A fashionable phrase in business today is ‘steal with pride.’ You could say that stealing is true benchmarking when done ...

Re-thinking Wordsworth – The power of language

blog1330479 — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:26:01 +0100

In Re-think I advocate having a Dictionary of Word Origins as your bathroom reading. Not only will this impress the ...

Re-think Targets - Write In with Yours!

blog1330479 — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:25:12 +0100

You may subscribe to the idea that Modern Life Is Rubbish (an album by Blur), but does it have to ...

'Green Wing' - Review

blog1330479 — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:22:22 +0100

Green Wing
UK TV – Channel 4

Hoscom is, apparently, the new word for a hospital comedy. The genre didn’t ...

What Is A Re-think?

blog1330479 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:35:13 +0100

As an Oxford mis-educated lawyer, I’m meant to ‘define my terms’. As a free thinker, I refuse to do so, ...