Speed Thinking is for time-poor individuals, groups & teams that want to become more productive, innovative and energised. Stop procrastinating & just start!
Golf for the most part is a solitary endeavour. It is just you, the course and your handicap. However there is a team format of golf called Ambrose which is fun to play and represents a lovely analogy for how groups and teams can become more productive and effective. The Ambrose 4 person format means…
This is the real story of a dedicated, imaginative teacher who has been experimenting with the principles of Speed Thinking in his classroom. If you work in a group or team or you have children at school or you simply are interested in how a creative teacher can unleash the magic in a young mind…
I just read the following tweet from a frustrated student; Group projects: one person does all the work. Everyone takes credit. Does this sound familiar? In my 10 years of teaching at a graduate level (part-time) in a business school the most common area of complaint was with group work. Some of the issues were to do…
Everything we do seems to be done in groups or teams. It starts at school, then university and overtakes us at work. Indeed no-one could get a job today if they were not considered a ‘team player.’ But is this emphasis on teams such a good thing? To be sure, a group of people can…
It’s easy — you Sprint It! One of my observations of managers and leaders over the years is firstly, how much of their time is spent in meetings and secondly, most of their work revolves around getting a few key projects off the ground. And it is often this ability of a leader to get the…
I just went and saw an amazing Australian Documentary called Mrs Carey’s Concert. http://mrscareysconcert.com/ The story centres around a private school in Sydney which puts together a concert at the Sydney Opera House every two years. The documentary makers have been given a ‘fly on the wall’ access to the 9 months preceding the concert and backstage to the concert…
I recently conducted over 20 in depth interviews with the leaders of Australia’s fastest growing companies (as obtained from BRW). I asked them all a simple question: To what extent have meetings helped or hindred their success? The results of this research has been fascinating and will provide any team-leader, manager or HR professional with…
I love creating new ideas, solutions or perspectives. One or two of these are amazing, most are run-of-the-mill and the rest, quite rightly, are destined to the great idea garbage bin in the sky. But you know the biggest complaint of people who create ideas is not that these are rejected but they are not…
