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 By Graham Wilson, on December 30th, 2011…to make a big difference to your work or to your senior executive job hunt? As some of you know, I’ve written a few times in the past about New Year’s Resolutions. For example: Keeping to your resolutions Resolutions, goals, happiness and engagement This year, my inbox seems to have been full of messages … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 29th, 2011BLOG: What exactly is an entrepreneur? I’ve been doing a lot of work around the nature of entrepreneurism lately, and thought it might be a worthwhile topic to explore with a wider group of people too. Mention the term ‘entrepreneur’ to the public and you’ll get very different definitions. Probably because of programmes like … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 20th, 2011OD is the art of organisation development – the application of behavioural science to turn work into a positive and successful place in which people are fulfilled. As a discipline, OD emerged in the 1950s as a product of an initiative in the United States known as the ‘quality of work life’ movement. The … / continued 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 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 February 13th, 2011I’ve been engaged in dialogue with someone on a forum dedicated to helping people find work. In the course of it, I began to expound my own perspective on the current economic, political and social climate and my frustrations at the current political answers. I don’t offer this for comment especially, but as a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on January 31st, 2011A few of my clients and colleagues have asked, from time-to-time, about the side of my work that I describe as being a ‘rapporteur’. Sitting in my hotel room waiting for a flight home, I thought I’d share the story and outcome of one quite straightforward example. This didn’t involve much of the political … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 15th, 2010Elsewhere, a question was posed about the future of “Human Resources”. It reflected the debates that seem to unfold whenever three of more HR professionals gather together in one room. It went something like this… Q: Everyone seems to agree that HR needs to change. We need to apply ‘strategic value’ to business. Yet, … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 6th, 2010Speaking to an audience of key European and Asian business leaders, in Lisbon, Portugal, recently, Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas, warned them not to assume that directors and boards are competent, effective or that they are going to add value to the business. Coulson-Thomas, who is the author of many books including “Winning Companies: Winning People … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 1st, 2010Future Minds: How The Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About It by Richard Watson Our world has changed… dramatically. Children as young as five are spending up to eight hours a day in front of screens; the average teen sends as many as 2,000 texts … / continued  Comments are closed  business book of the week, emotional & spiritual intelligence, general, psychology / brain science 
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