Egregores – an overview

Let me tell you a little about egregores. An Egregore is a “spiritual” being which is created, usually by a group of people often the imagination is in the form of gossip and rumour: “Have you heard about so-and-so? I heard they are untrustworthy” etc… After a while, the amount of gossip, thought and will…

Naming the Darkness

For many people working in or running their own businesses, recessions are times of “darkness”. The shadow nature of recessions is something of a double-edged sword. Shadows can be places of coolness, out of the strong heat of the sun. But they can also be “shady” places in another sense – a place of hiding,…

Overcoming Resistance to Change

This is a simple model that looks at different approaches to change resistance. I developed it during a series of change workshops for a manufacturing company in the aftermath of a recession. Managers had realised they wanted to further explore and experience the issue of why and how people resist change. Their default tended to…

New iPad? Tech firms have abandoned radical innovation for mediocrity

This article also appears on The Conversation – Paul Levy, University of Brighton. it was published in 2015 but still seems relevant today. The dust has now settled on the latest product launch from Apple, which for many trumped headlines about refugees, poverty and the battles for the Republican nomination and leadership of the UK…