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Colour Culture

As well as colour psychology, certain parts of the world also have symbolic associations with particular colours. If you are going to launch your product outside of your own familiar culture, you might need to know that your lucky green … Continue reading

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Happy Christmas [first_name]!

The season is over and the Christmas cards are being taken down. I glance fondly over a few – especially the ones with a handwritten page of updates from people I see less than I mean to. And then there’s … Continue reading

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4 top tips for a community organisation

I was recently asked by a community organisation for my top tips to how they should be structured based on my personal views, Bold Vision, business / third sector / life experience. I decided to share them here… 1. If people don’t … Continue reading

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Abundance or scarcity?

Maybe scarcity is a kind of abundance. Continue reading

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Plus ça change… is Change Management more of the same?

The more things change the more they stay the same goes the saying. Yet Change Management is a growth industry and fretting about change a constant source of debate. The first change management program I was involved with affected the … Continue reading

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Can we ever reliably judge ourselves (let alone others)?

In yesterday’s Thinking Tank debate on ethics, I was struck in particular by the change in self evaluation between the beginning and the end of the discussion. It seems, as the writers of the book we referred to (Bazerman and … Continue reading

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Less Grand but still by Design

I was at the Grand Designs show yesterday. Same music as previous years and same layout. A new influx of massage chairs and beds (loads of them, with show-weary punters being pummelled looking like bodies in The Matrix  as they … Continue reading

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Nudging patients

Last week I was working with the Accidents and Emergency dept of a busy London hospital. One of the improvements we were discussing was a ticketing system so patients had some sense of being in a queue, not being forgotten, … Continue reading

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