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 …