Leadership
The principles of success - hear Professor Patrick Jordan on the 17th September
Hear Thoughtcrew friend Patrick Jordan share the principles of success at a seminar in the South West. He will cover:-
Take Responsibility. Understand that we, and nobody else, are ultimately responsible for our actions, thoughts and attitudes. How our lives turn out is up to us and no-one else.
Set Goals. Goals provide us with [...]
Thoughtcrew launches three new business biomimetic services
Business biomimetic solutions
Thoughtcrew has developed three business biomimetic offers for leadership, change management and innovation. The following summary provides an overview of the offers and shows how these could work for your business.
Business biomimetics and introduction
This is a range of education and introduction to business biomimetics talks and workshops. Lasting from a one hour talk [...]
Phil Richardson joins the PSL at The Lords for the launch of The Partner
Lord David Evans of Watford hosted the 20th anniversay of PSL at the House of Lords this week. Over 180 business leaders joined together to launch the latest edition of The Partner magazine. Phil Richardson, Thoughtcrew, authored the thought leadership chapter “Fit for the Future” exploring the use of evolution as a model for innovation. [...]
Feedback from HR directors highlights the importance of biomimetics as a technique in leadership and change management
HR Directors that attended the recent HR Forum in London to hear Phil Rchardson give his talk on leadership and change management and the use of biomimetics as a business tool provided some exciting feedback. If you are interested in finding out more visit Thoughtcrew or call Phil on +44 208 133 4728.
“Very passionate about [...]
Symbiosis as a tool to understand business partnerships
At the HR Forum in London today Phil Richardson presented biomimetics and how that can be used in helping understand busines relationships and growth driven change management. A summary can be found in Personnal Today
Biologize your HR strategy
Tap into the power of nature to design and deliver your HR strategy. Using Past Casting based on the biology of crabs it is possible to design everything from a future based competency interview to aligning the leadership team to the new growth strategy. Business biomimetics provides a way of challenging traditional thinking that [...]
Natural nationalism
The family is the basic unit of society acording to my good friend Guy. A collection of families are a village, town or city and a collection of these are a nation. Of course in nature there are examples of such systems in place and equally those that spread their subsequent generations far and wide. [...]
The next big thing in consulting
Biomimetics is the next big thing in consulting acording to a group of senior business leaders that attended the latest briefing by Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew.
Exploring the application of the new models and theories developed by Phil on his PhD at the University of Bath the invited audience were enthusiastic about the application [...]
Avoiding the crunch in mergers and acquisitions
Phil Richardson of Thoughtcrew talks to Danny Davies from DD Consulting about the mergers and acquisition marketplace. Danny runs DDConsulting and is a trustee for the Chartered Institute of Management. Here are the questions and answers from that session. If you want to ask a question then please use the comments section or you can [...]
Why insight is essential and software can’t provide it
Essential: vitally important, fundamental
Insight: penetrating and often sudden understanding, as of a complex situation or problem
I once asked the inventor of a clever search engine to build a business analysis engine - a software machine into which we might pour gigabytes of business data and then ask a series of broad questions. It would [...]
