Innovation: …in a game of Chinese Whispers?

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Gateway to Investment (G2i) the London-based Investment Readiness Programme, have recently (1st July) issued a post relating to the UK Government’s plan for a UK INNOVATION FUND . The G2i post prompted me to consider the game of Chinese…

On innovation and ragged trousers… just a thought!

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Robert Tressell described the “Great Money Trick” of capitalism, in his book “The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, first published in 1914. This was admirably summarised by Gary Day, in his 1997 introduction to the Harper Perennial edition of the book…

1909 – The Future and all that…

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ “We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicoloured polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and…

River of Judgement…

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Murder, drink, divorce, bankruptcy and love threaten in the unfolding drama of a city-executive as he looses control of his business and his life. Well, the first draft of River of Judgment is now complete and, having set a…

From thinking management to creating management…

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ Well, here goes… I have decided on a career change – number ? in a series from 1 to ??In Thinking the Art of Management I have written about the concept of fiction as a means of delivering new…

Dancing Organisations…

Note: This post first featured on “The Art of…” blog, under my name: David Atkinson http://davidsartof.blogspot.com/ This is just a brief post to draw attention to a recently published paper in the Journal Management Decision, under my name David Atkinson. Dancing “the management”: on social presence, rhythm and finding common purpose In an early post…