The #BookStack
My connections and followers regularly ask me “How do you write so much content? You are like a machine” 🤖 Like my friend Oleg Vishnepolsky revealed, The truth is there is no …
The Fintech earthquake of 2017
2017 will be known as the year that Fintech started to be taken seriously. FinTech stands for Financial Technology and was originally used by traditional financial institutions to refer to …
The Elephant in the Boardroom
I hear this narrative in the right-wing press a lot. “It’s the politics of envy. If you pay peanuts you get monkeys, because markets work. If you don’t pay adequate …
The Death of Aspiration
In the aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis, something died. Aspiration. Defined in the dictionary as the “a hope or ambition of achieving something.” Big risks were taken by a lot …
A Cautionary Tale about Corporate Values
A short cautionary tale about corporate culture. We’ve heard about #FakeNews but what about #FakeValues? This corporate giant listed its core values as follows: Communication – We have an …
Outsourcing – It’s a Zero Sum Game
20th Century Management Consulting has become the go to option for one thing. Outsourcing. Here’s the thing about Outsourcing. It favours an approach called #balancesheeteconomics. A zero-sum game. Where …
The Greek Tragedy of Outsourcing
The Greek Tragedy was a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Asia Minor and was born out of Athens in the 5th century BC. It dealt with the big …
Blockchain – It’s easy to be negative
“Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the …
The Man in the Mirror and Anthropomorphism
It’s never too late for humanity. My favourite is the word at the moment is “Anthropomorphic” which is defined as the act of giving the characteristics of humans to other …
LinkedIn Top Voice 2017 – Alexandra Galviz
I’m so happy for my buddy #AuthenticAlex who was voted one of LinkedIn’s top voices for 2017. We met for the first time in March and since then have kept …