The happy secret to better work

A fantastic talk by Shawn Achor about how happiness and positivity make you make you more effective and successful. Seemingly obvious in retrospect but often ignored some great insight in to how we think working harder will drive success and then we’ll be happy actually has the opposite effect. Some great, small techniques for progressively […]

Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees

I recently read a great article from the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on why you should create a “shadow board” to help tackle some of the increasing challenges around adapting to changes in your market. A lot of companies struggle with two apparently unrelated problems: disengaged younger workers and a weak response to changing market […]

John Szilagyi’s Multi-Billion $ Idea

So something I often think about within the analyst community is what the role of creativity and ideas play. As analysts it can be uncommon to think creatively and often think more more logically. The unfortunately side effect of this however is if one of us can’t solve a problem the rest, faced with the […]