This month’s Harvard Business Review (HBR) features a series of fascinating articles on the 21st – Century Workspace. In a sidebar to one of them, Workspaces That Move People, reference is made to the 1977 book, entitled Managing the Flow of Technology, by Thomas J Allen….
Our progress as a civilisation has always in part been measured by our powers of invention. That is not to downplay the importance of moral and intellectual development but new products and processes are somehow more concrete and, judging by the current daily servings of…
Any prospective purchaser of another business will factor due diligence into both the budget and the timetable. Sometimes it is a legal requirement; always it is an essential part of the platform upon which informed decision-making is based. After first establishing that the target enterprise is…
When I turned my back on two law degrees to become a trainee account executive in a large London advertising agency, I had made a choice between two very different worlds. I softened the blow for my parents by asserting that both careers required well-honed…
Relationships will never be the same again. The internet has seen to that. Liaisons personal and professional alike have been transformed by the digital revolution. Dating, flirting, courtship, and even dumping are now facilitated by online exchanges and a suite of apps designed both to intensify…
In May 2012 best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin posted a blog entitled ‘Dancing on the edge of finished’. In the complex world of digital connectedness, it urged us all to ‘be comfortable with the undone, with the cycle of never-ending’. Indeed, ‘it’s a dance,…
Bigfoot is owned and run by Paul Tredwell. Since 2004 I have been an independent communications consultant, delivering a wide range of projects but with a focus on and passion for relationship optimisation.
