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Your baby is ugly (and it's ok)

The first time I heard the expression 'your baby is ugly' was during a brief stint working for a boutique consulting firm in the mid 2000s.

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Have we crossed the event horizon?

I saw a great presentation a few months ago from someone who had attended Davos, the annual invitation-only think tank in January hosted by the World Economic Forum.

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Your brain is not designed for now

Our planet is about 4.5 billion years old. We all know that humans appeared relatively recently in the grand scheme of things but it's sometimes useful to remind ourselves just how recently.

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People are not their behaviour

The first time I heard the phrase 'people are not their behaviour' was in a three-day leadership and culture workshop way back in 2001 and I genuinely thought the speaker was nuts.

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Culture battles kill most acquisitions

You've heard the old saying that culture eats strategy for breakfast. If you doubt that, just look at the countless examples of acquisitions that looked fantastic on paper.

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