Small Thoughts Blog
Clive’s eclectic expertise often finds him making novel connections between unexpected subject matter areas - such as putting machine learning with tomato plant disease, banking crises with workplace health and safety, gas exploration with artificial intelligence, and psychology with tourism.
In this regular blog, Clive tackles critical questions about the science and best practices of leadership, management and business.
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Six Steps to Taming Wicked Problems
Sustainable change? Only gritty leaders need apply.
Change really is the only constant. Indeed, if you follow the branch of philosophy that inspires me, everything is change, and everything is process.
It’s all a matter of scale, but whatever the scale, achieving sustainable change is never easy, unless you’re pretty single minded. Why is that so?
Learning balances thinking, being and doing
Learning is not something we’re typically taught - it seems that it’s something we’re just expected to do.
Why is it important that we understand how to learn?
Our private and work lives are changing: Are you ready?
There are at least four major forces that are driving change in our private and work lives: globalisation, urbanisation, healthcare technology and technological change.
But what does this mean for you?
True learning creates sustainable futures
Let me guess. You’ve read a hundred or more articles on the importance of learning to you and your organisation.
So, why is organisational learning so important that people like me keep writing about it?
Being the tree, not its shadow: Questions about character drive risks to your reputation
How your character is seen by others is affected by what you and your close friends and colleagues do.
Most of the time you try to be good. Occasionally you get things wrong and sometimes your close friends and colleagues make mistakes that affect you as well.
But what does this mean for your reputation?