Why weren’t we better prepared for COVID-19? The neuroscience of unreasonable optimism
This article was first published on History News Network in 2012. I’ve
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Culture
CultureRich Americans good; poor Americans bad. Charles Murray is Coming Apart. →
June 25th | by Jonathan Gifford
CultureCitizens United: corporations are not associations of citizens →
March 19th | by Jonathan Gifford
CultureTerence Conran’s Habitat: changing lifestyles in 1960s Britain →
February 17th | by Jonathan Gifford
Business & Leadership
Is your organisation stuck in the industrial era?
Is your organisation stuck in the industrial era? Find out now
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Business & LeadershipThe 25 golden rules of rubbish management →
December 12th | by Jonathan Gifford
Business & LeadershipStatus stress: the perfect way to destroy creativity at work →
October 18th | by Jonathan Gifford
Business & LeadershipMaverick! Ricardo Semler’s 10 democratic changes at Semco →
January 31st | by Jonathan Gifford
Leadership issues
Brown, Cameron and Clegg; leadership or management?
April 28th | by Jonathan Gifford
The UK’s 2010 election, like most (but not all) elections, is all about the desire for change and the
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Come on Cameron and Clegg, give us some cakes and ale
Toyota crisis: leadership on the line
Toyota leadership crisis? A view from the UK
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Leadership Ideas
Abandon failed projects: great leadership idea #101
March 20th | by Jonathan Gifford
Teams become emotionally attached to major projects in which they have invested their creative energies. It is difficult for
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Let the organisation manage itself. Great Leadership Idea 146
Create infectious ideas or ‘memes’. Great Leadership Idea No. 183
Embrace surprises — Great Leadership Idea No. 140
Mine the data — Great Leadership Idea No. 148
Create followers – Great Leadership Idea No. 23
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Leaders from History
Lee Kuan Yew: Creating A Nation
March 29th | by Jonathan Gifford
Below is a short biography of Lee Kuan Yew taken from my book History Lessons, which looks at the great leaders from
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Genghis Khan: creating a nation and an empire
Mustafa Kemal, the creator of modern Turkey
April 2nd, 1801. ‘I see no ships’: Horatio Nelson turns a blind eye at the Battle of Copenhagen
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, ‘The Prince of Diplomats’
John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough
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