How many times have you checked your email today? Which takes priority – the thing that was top of your to-do list at 9am, or the email that just dropped into your In Box? If you’re talking on your landline and your mobile phone […]

Reading the papers, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s the end of the world as we know it. Soaring oil prices, rising food costs, tighter credit, an ailing housing market. Each day brings a fresh wave of bad news. […]

I remember it well. It was 1994, and I was trying to explain the enormous potential of the internet to a sceptical friend. I could barely contain my enthusiasm. “It’s big, it’s global and it brings everything together,” I burbled. […]

I’ve just finished reading an intriguing book – The Medici Effect, by Frans Johannson. The idea is simple: when two unrelated fields cross over, you enter what Johannson calls ‘the intersection’. And great ideas result – sometimes. The name comes […]

I’m reading a fascinating book at the moment. It’s all about making things work in unexpected ways – combining things that have never been combined before, doing things differently, and stumbling on success. I was sitting in my mobile office (Starbucks) yesterday […]