I remember the fun, when working in for a family owned department store, of a flash sale. All of a sudden the finance director and board would choose to create a sales event on a certain day of the week to try and drive trade. 10% or 20% discounts, cutting margins, chasing volume. What happened,… Read More Discounting
You probably don’t know but we produce a newsletter which goes out once a month. In it we list the things we’re going to be doing, summarise the things we’ve done and post something only for those people on the list. The last one went out on Tuesday and included a piece about how organisations… Read More Read more
Adulting is hard. You spend most of your time trying to get along, making best guesses about everything. Parenting, as anyone lucky to have kids know, is even harder. It doesn’t really matter that AI doesn’t “know” what it’s doing. Most of the time, we don’t either. Hallucinations and human work Don’t trust anyone who… Read More Smoke and mirrors
Here are a few of the questions I’m pondering right now. Some of them are more a priority than others, but they’re all important in one way or another. No answers, just the random thoughts I’m weaving together. • If everything is VUCA, then nothing is. How do we help people understand ambiguity and volatility… Read More Questions, no answers
I was looking back at a Seth Godin blog post in 2019: The rationale for traditional education is that more learning gets you a better job, and a job gets you paid, which makes the learning a worthwhile investment. Paid to learn – Seth Godin I think this is different now. The rationale for traditional… Read More Shifting sands
Lost and Desperate 