The Infinite Ideas blog
We write on a variety of subjects and often post exclusive ideas by our bestselling authors. We publish a diverse list and our blog reflects this so if you don’t find a post that interests you today check back later in the week and you’ll probably find something that takes your fancy. Happy reading.
Preparing for a Pax Trumpicana
3 August 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Codebreaking our future
A blog by Michael Lee, futurist and author of Codebreaking our Future and Knowing our Future. A Pax Americana is defined as a state of relative international peace overseen by the US superpower. A Pax Trumpicana would be a revision of this order according to a bold, new, highly personalised, US-centric presidency of Donald Trump …
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Biodynamic wine by Monty Waldin
27 July 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Classic Wine Library
Are cows’ horns filled with manure going to change our wine-drinking habits? For years, wines have been sorted into fairly standard categories, by region, colour or style, but there is a growing phenomenon among winemakers and consumers that is challenging that categorisation: biodynamic wine production. This isn’t any sort of voodoo or quasi-religious trickery, nor …
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Game of Thrones is full of business strategy – if you know where to look
3 May 2016 by Rebecca in Business and finance, Entertainment, Game of Thrones on Business
As our winter draws (reluctantly) to a close we plunge once more into a world where winter is coming, and brings with it sex, intrigue, swordfights, skulduggery and dragons. Unless (or possibly even if) you’ve been living on a wi-fi free desert island for the last five years you will realise we are talking about …
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Alice in strategy land by Kate M. Santon can help improve your business
1 April 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance
Why replacing the rulebook with a 150-year-old pair of novels can improve your business strategy Rules abound in our working lives. Many people follow these rules unquestioningly, adhering to procedures, attending meetings and handing in reports. But are the long accepted ways of conducting business always the best? Are these rules and procedures helping or hindering our organizations? Perhaps …
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Career lessons from The Walking Dead: be adaptable
16 March 2016 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Entertainment, Working With The Walking Dead
Rick, Morgan and the other characters who have lasted share in common an ability to adjust to change; to understand that the important thing is to work with the world as it is now not as it used to be or as they wish it could be again. Rick gets into the swing of the new world very quickly, …
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The pros and cons of self-publishing your business book
10 March 2016 by Richard Burton in Book publishing, Business and finance, Publishing for business
Why go through all the hassle of finding a commercial publisher for your breakthrough book on strategic thinking when it’s so easy to self-publish? After all, you’ve done all the hard work just writing it haven’t you? Why would you give it to a publisher who will pay you a measly 10% royalty when you …
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