I’d like to draw your attention to a blog by Julian Thompson who is the director of projects at the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (the RSA). Julian has worked as a social researcher for 10 years. Specialising in qualitative methods, he has undertaken major participatory research programmes and strategic futures … / continued
 
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 By Graham Wilson, on December 3rd, 2011 By Graham Wilson, on September 4th, 2011It was a sad day this week, when I learnt of the death of an old colleague, John Macdonald. This isn’t an obituary, there are times and places for those, but I would like to reflect on one of his key messages. In ‘retirement’, John was an author and speaker, and it was as … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 8th, 2011Belarus-born researcher and blogger, Evgeny Morozov, works on the political effects of the internet. He is skeptical about the Internet’s ability to provoke change in authoritarian regimes. He points out that the internet is used as a powerful tool to sustain authoritarian regimes and promote extreme nationalist views. Morozov is currently visiting scholar at … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 25th, 2011Book summary: The Personal Branding Phenomenon by Peter Montoya (2002) Back in 2003, this summary was sent to friends and colleagues on my personal email mailing list – as it was then! Recent conversations, led me to resurrect it, to tweak the English, and to post it as a blog item. I hope that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 22nd, 2011If you haven’t already seen it, you might like to watch the BBC documentary series, The Beauty of Diagrams. The first episode is on the drawing “The Vitruvian Man” by Leonardo da Vinci. It’s available on iplayer until 10pm on Monday 28th March. The Vitruvian Man brings together the theories of architecture by … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 13th, 2011“With so little effort on my own part, I can empower an unlimited amount of people for all time. I can’t imagine a better use of my time.” Salman Khan – founder of the Khan Academy The history In late 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!’s … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 26th, 2010Sue Savage-Rumbaugh – Kanzi: The ape at the brink of the Human mind I can hear my critics speaking right now… “What exactly has THIS got to do with Business, Graham?” Well, almost every month, I find myself in conversation with someone (sometimes a client, often a sceptic, occasionally an academic, but usually a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 12th, 2010Jason Fried is the co-founder and president of 37signals, a Chicago-based company that builds web-based productivity tools. This may not seem like the necessary credentials to write a business book per se. However, how about this as a review from an Amazon reviewer: “This book will make you uncomfortable. Depending on what you do … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 6th, 2010Our understanding of behaviour in groups has been evolving for many years. Much of the earliest scientific study was based on animal populations and formed a subset of the science of ethology. These studies usually revolved around small groups that were relatively easy to observe. Larger group theories could not be studied very accurately … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 21st, 2010The other week, I found myself watching the film, “The Last King of Scotland” – an account based on events in Uganda under the Presidency of Idi Amin. We saw an individual who had been a model soldier, was liked by the international community, and popular with his people, progressively become a violent dictator … / continued 
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