Effective teams pursue a common outcome and have a common goal they want to reach. Healthy teams have mutual respect between members of the team and management. Plus, team members value one another’s contributions and skill sets. …

First, there was the Big Bang, some 13.5 billion years ago. Then, stars began to form, then galaxies, lighting up the darkness of the early universe. …

“If we have learned anything from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run- and often in the short one- the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.” Arthur C Clarke In this article, I'm going to explore why I believe there are no limits to…

Much has been written about happiness over the past few millennia. But what I am going to do in this short article is to change the way you think about happiness, while introducing you to two relatively new concepts: thriveability and antifragility. A lot of my work in the past…

Aeons ago, when I was a young investment banker (think early 1980s, without the red braces), an Italian colleague gave a presentation on Zen. In his inimitable Italian accent, Tizziano said: “Zen eez nusssing”. I discovered meditation and mantras at university when TM (Transcendental Meditation) was just getting going in…

Two days ago I received my copy of “The Climate Book”, created by world-renowned climate activist Greta Thunberg. This book should be on everyone’s reading list, nightstand, desk, and bookshelf, preferably well-thumbed and post-it note filled as mine has become in the past 48 hours. Greta invited 100 of the…

COP27- here we go again….it is now 30 years since the first Rio conference that set out to bring the leaders of the world together to tackle climate change, or global overheating, and the sixth mass extinction as I prefer to call it. With homo sapiens directly in the firing…

In part one of this inquiry into the kinds of thinking that will help us survive and thrive now and in the future, we asked the question: What kind of thinking is needed in a complex and uncertain world? We discovered how to avoid the five thinking traps, by developing…

The vast majority of earth’s inhabitants now acknowledge that they have to do something about the six interconnected, escalating crises showing up in our lives on a daily basis. What’s missing is the means by which our growing awareness can be transformed into effective strategies to survive and thrive. This…