Colourful Thinkers

Recent Blogs.

• NARRATIVE MATTERS November 18, 2019
  The meeting rooms of the business world are full of executives talking about their “story” and the “narrative flow” from one set of results to another. Often their version of events sounds like a child accused of telling “stories”. Stories are the PR versions of the truth; spins on selected facts. As an ex-advertising man […]
• ANY CHANGE? November 11, 2019
  On the anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down 30 years ago, let’s reflect on how radically our world has changed. In 1989 we still smoked wherever we wanted certainly in restaurants – just imagine. The Dow Jones averaged 2,510 whilst on Friday night, November 8th 2019 it closed at 27,681 – a mighty change.But […]
• WHY RISK-TAKING NEEDS TO BE SENSIBLE November 4, 2019
  Many people grumble that we’re living in a snowflake world where excitement is being removed from our lives by a Health and Safety obsession. It’s as though safety is an effete thing and as for health – well, bring me my Capstan Full Strength and a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. Smokers cough? Nah! That’s a […]
• THIS BROKEN AND UNHAPPY WORLD October 28, 2019
  Was I dreaming or did I hear these words in a recent sermon at church? Depressingly the church tends to focus on bad news rather than on the exciting and triumphant.The media has had an increasingly doom-ridden attitude towards our educational system. People tell me we are short-changing our children and that we are to […]
• THE DEATH OF THE SALESMAN October 21, 2019
  “When you're lying awake with a dismal headacheAnd repose is taboo'd by anxiety……For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspireOf usual slumber to plunder you:First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes,And your sheet slips demurely from under you.”This was me– the song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Iolanthe’ filled my head plus a ‘new’ […]