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“This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.” David Mitchell, Ghostwritten. This week I share with you a brief summary of the allegory of the long spoons in which the residents of both he...

Since writing about the concept of heaven on earth in my column a couple of weeks ago I have discovered that there is a whole network of people all over the globe who also subscribe to this school of thought. Thanks to the tireless work of Martin Rut...

“The hardest part of reaching heaven is realising that you have arrived.” Unknown Have you ever noticed that when even the greatest idea in the world is given too much exposure it somehow loses its lustre in the eyes of the common man? In the never-e...

“We all overestimate change over one year and underestimate it over five years.” Martin Gilbert, chairman Asset Co PLC As we continue our discussion this week on the theme of unfinished business I have another exceedingly controversial question for y...

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” R. Buckminster Fuller This week as we make our way through y...

“An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” Sir Isaac Newton Inertia. We all feel it – that mind-numbing heaviness that settles...

Have you ever had an experience that was so hysterically funny that you just weren’t sure you could ever explain it to someone else? Picture me now sitting at the keyboard trying to figure out how to explain the side-splitting pandemonium that ensued...

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” Henry Ford There is a world of untapped business opportunity waiting to be discovered online. It’s something I alluded to last week, but let’s extend that co...

Imagine you are a small-business owner with multiple projects on the go and business partners in three different time zones. Now imagine that you wake up one morning and realise that you are too sick to work. Would someone be able to step in immedia...

“The value of vision is insight.” Unknown This week’s exercise in thinking begins with a simple question: if I asked you to explain a microwave to a caveman where would you begin? On the surface this task seems easy enough in that a microwave is a fa...