May 30

Do you have a 37th move? What can we learn from AI?

Do you have a 37th move? What can we learn from AI?

In March 2016, world champion Lee Sedol pitted his skills in the game of Go against the AlphaGo algorithm developed by DeepMind in a series of five matches. Sedol famously lost, however something quite ground breaking happened in the 37th move of the second game.

November 11

Martin Luther King didn’t say “I have a problem”…

Martin Luther King didn’t say “I have a problem”…

Whilst reflecting upon a client dilemma that they deemed impossible to solve, I recalled the above statement from something I had recently read. Despite all of the challenges that Dr King could have spoken about in his seminal address in Washington in 1963, he chose to focus on the outcome (“I have a dream…”) with historic implications.

August 10

Do you leave everything “on the track”?

Do you leave everything “on the track”?

Spare a thought for Laura Muir the Scottish athlete who ran the 1500m in London last weekend. Having led for a significant proportion of the race, she was beaten into fourth place by South African Caster Semenya.

November 28

Are you clear about how to succeed?

Are you clear about how to succeed?

Those of you who have been following my posts for a while will recognise the issues of “busyness” that I often mention. This is where we have never ending streams of email, calls, instant messages…

August 12

Picasso: to succeed you have to do

Picasso: to succeed you have to do

I was recently in the Museo Pablo Picasso in Malaga. For those of you who don’t know, Picasso was from Malaga and the Picasso Foundation set up the museum as he had always wanted a permanent exhibition of his work in his ‘home’ city.