Here in the UK, we are officially smack in the middle of autumn in our household. That time of the year when you switch on the heating depending on how cold your feet feel. It is still a few days, or weeks, before we will switch to the thermostat’s programmed timer schedule. That will be…
Last week, I baked a birthday cake for my daughter. I enjoy cooking but I haven’t really tried my hand a lot at baking. So I picked up the easiest sounding recipe for a chocolate cake. Why chocolate? Because every five year old loves chocolate. Actually, make that between five and fifty, to take into…
There is a series of three lectures by Clayton Christensen which he delivered at Said Business School a few years ago. In the first one, unsurprisingly, he discusses the theory he is best known for: disruptive innovation. The second talks about management and the panda’s thumb – practices which were developed because they may have…