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.
“My little birds are everywhere” – Lord Varys
15 April 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Game of Thrones on Business
In our ever more connected world it can be hard to know what is private and what isn’t. Recently many people have discovered to their horror that what they thought were private messages or photographs have been hacked and shown to the whole world. Perhaps it’s time to take some lessons in circumspection from Game …
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Game of Thrones on Business by Tim Phillips and Rebecca Clare
13 April 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Game of Thrones on Business
Yesterday the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones was released to an adoring global audience. If you’re not a fan yet perhaps you should be if only for the sake of your business. While watching it is incredibly entertaining, it could also revolutionize your business and leadership skills, a new book shows. …
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Should BP have sent a raven?
10 April 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Game of Thrones on Business
It’s common knowledge now that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was the biggest known oil disaster in the petroleum industry, the clean up of which was handled very badly by BP. Might the damage-control have gone better if CEO Tony Hayward had been able to swot up on …
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Seven lessons of leadership we learnt from The Office
8 April 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Authentic leadership, Business and finance, Entertainment
Of course, Michael Scott was not the only boss that the Scranton office of Dunder Mifflin had over the years. Sadly, he left at the end of series seven and his successors had leadership styles that were entirely their own. Given that there were lots of successors, we can gather that they weren’t exactly incredibly …
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7 reasons why Michael Scott is NOT the ‘World’s Best Boss’
1 April 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Authentic leadership, Business and finance, Entertainment
Last week we wrote about how much we admired Michael Scott for the leadership lessons that he could teach us. However, we’re sure you’re all thinking that there were more than a few occasions when Michael’s managerial qualities were somewhat lacking. So, in the interest of fairness, we have balanced out last week’s list with …
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What can Tesco learn from Daenerys Targaryen?
27 March 2015 by Catherine Holdsworth in Business and finance, Entertainment, Game of Thrones on Business
It was announced at the end of last year that Tesco would be closing several stores to make up for the deficit of billions of pounds lost in 2014. Whether this is a strategic retreat or an unplanned but necessary downsizing is yet to be seen. But perhaps we can hold off panic buying their …
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