by Giles Broadbent | Oct 2, 2022 | Productivity
Setting targets is hugely important to keeping your projects on track – but sometimes they can become the real reason you’re not making progress.
by Giles Broadbent | Sep 26, 2022 | Research
Shakespeare was right when he portrayed the frailty of kings. We can use the hollow moves of Putin in Ukraine to illustrate sly cunning in action For the purposes of this blog, we should remove ourselves from the battlefield. We’re going to examine the Russian...
by Giles Broadbent | Feb 22, 2022 | Techniques
Finding your voice, something that is distinctly you, is not alchemy, it just requires you to be you, says George Saunders, short story supremo A writer’s voice: what is it? You know what it is when you read it. Charles Dickens, JK Rowling, Vladimir Nabokov,...
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 23, 2021 | Techniques
What is a story? The age-old question with many answers. Best ask someone who has experience of creating stories that resonate and make us care Andrew Stanton knows about story. He managed to make us fall in love with a tiny robot with expressive eyes but no language...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 23, 2021 | Productivity
Don’t worry. The boiling frog is alive and well. It thrives in meeting rooms and email chains of projects, big and small. Here’s how to stop it. To halt any potential tears, I should make clear the boiling frog hypothesis is dead and no more frogs are boiled to...