The Emperor with the new cloths draws everyone along with him in his foolishness. Our business culture must empower people to both shout out that the Emperor is naked and to be applorded for doing so.

Working harder is never the right way of increasing your effectiveness

Work smarter NOT harder, Facts are temporary, and build a contrarian culture

Some of the highlights of the Open Minds Symposium in Washington DC. December 2014.

I speak about the 4 levels of facts, and the future of the Healthcare market among much else.

One of the biggest problems in business today is that organisations steer by their wake. They plan for next year to look like this year but just a little better. The problem is, life doesn't work that way. Excession Events or Blackswan events are circumstances in which the very definition of what success in a market is changed.

My writing and talks are about how that change operates, how to build a culture to see these changes coming and ultimately how to benefit when you are one step ahead of your competitors.

Here is a short film of a few of the concepts I discuss in my talks.

Too often companies hire people who like like the sort of people they already employ, when in fact we should be hiring as diverse group of individuals as possible.

Differing views help diffuse group think, and that is vitally important in the modern business environment.

What to do when the consequence of being the contrarian voice is to get you fired.

An example of what an Excession Event

Talk at Infocomm15 with Simon Dudley moderating a panel discussion on the future of the UC space.

A recap of Infocomm15 with Dave Danto, Dave Maldow, Jules Truno and Simon Dudley.

We discuss the good and bad of Infocomm15.

The full presentation of Excession Events at the London school of physicians, September 2015.

Excession Events is a business built around solving one of the most important business problems of our era. How to run a reseller, distributor or manufacturer business when the business model for all of these businesses has change so radically in the last 2 years.

Scott Wharton and I discuss the way in which to be successful companies need to have both great products and an ability to sell them profitably at a low cost. This is a huge problem, and one few companies are in a position to cope with effectively.