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Send us Fan Mail Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 22 November, 2022 Elon Musk has acquired spectacular success as an innovator. He has been compared with career great engineering pioneers who shaped our world. One list places him alongside George Stevenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Edison, Ada Lovelace, and Henry Ford. In addition, the list contained a particularly interesting nominatio...

Send us Fan Mail Boris Loses It 20 November 2024 Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards from articles in The Week, The Economist, and a Case study from Henley Business School. The rise and fall of Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become one of the most widely studied cases of political leadership from the perspective of a leaders losing the trust of his ministerial colleagues. The long and complex s...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom November 10-18, 2024 Finding wit and wisdom in the Presidential election result @LongTimeHistory Sadly, there will be 4 more years of Trump for Tennessee Brando to write songs. His  new song is about MAGA selling out their daughters for cheaper eggs. 🎶 The red hats are flexing, they're all acting thrilled. They don't know how tariffs work, but soon they s...

Send us Fan Mail A tale of creative accounting from His Majesty's Armed Forces  16 November, 2024 This podcast is spoken by Tudor Rickards from content which has appeared on several internet sites but without attribution. Today I found the tale replicated in the correspondence to the Guardian’ s quick crossword, supplied  by the puzzler Bath Osprey . I would welcome any suggestions of its ori...

Send us Fan Mail The Gartner hype cycle: An investment system explained using a mapping metaphor  This podcast is spoken and produced by Tudor Rickards drawing on information from:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/07/18/the-trough-of-disillusionment-and-four-outliers-on-the-gartner-hype-cycle/;  https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle As its commercial own...

Send us Fan Mail How is trust earned and lost? Notes prepared for a 4th edition of Dilemmas of Leadership November 11  I scribble down some initial thoughts. How is trust earned and lost? Psychological theories Practical experiences Are leaders actions ‘banked’?  And selectively remembered with distortions: the popular expression of a deeply held belief as “QUOTE I’ll never forget the way he…” A p...

Send us Fan Mail Chess training resumes. Question of the week: “why can’t a Queen castle?” After half-term hiatus, my Sunday morning junior chess training resumes.  As ever, the session is a source of enlightenment for me (as well, I hope, for the students).  I can report the break has not affected the retention of earlier lessons by the students.  For example, one has become somewhat entranced by...

Send us Fan Mail Ed Davey. Don’t laugh at him, he’s not a fool. Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards In the 2024 General Election in the United Kingdom, The Liberal Democratic Party leader Ed Davey began to attract media coverage for a series of events which were unkindly described as political stunts. Davey was widely mocked by the press, and by the general public who appeared mostly confused abo...

Send us Fan Mail On naming Liverpool’s new football manager … the case for Nominative Determinism. The story came to life for me today, when William, an acquaintance of mine who is an avid football follower, suggested that you had to have a special sort of name at present to become a manager at Liverpool FC. "They used to pick managers with solid English or Scottish names", he continued,...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom: Election special, 6 November 2024 Composed by contributors to “X” Collated and spoken by Tudor Rickards 8.00am Times are GMT. Posts from 3 - 6 November @elonmusk Last election, I didn’t know a single independent/swing voter who was voting for Trump.  This time, I don’t know anyone who isn’t. And one person after another has confided in me that they’re voting for Tr...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and wisdom, November 1-4 2024 @cjhancock People say I have an elevendency to exaggerate. @mustard99 Same here, I go to Elevenerife on holiday. @at a prayer meeting for Trump “But I want you to know and we want you to know we believe you are a vessel. You are a chosen vessel” @jemmaforte The Titanic? @TollytB Everyone should try blindfold archery. Go on, give it a go, you don&a...

Send us Fan Mail Dilemmas of Leadership Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Destiny and Development Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards Faced with an important leadership problem, a helpful approach is to arrive at a simple either–or statement which expresses a way of thinking as a dilemma. Sometimes this is enough for an idea of resolving the problem to occur to you. At other times, deeper thinking may be re...

Send us Fan Mail @jdpoc John O’Donnell Remember, clocks go back tonight. If you're a Tory, back to 1953. If you're Reform, back to 1932. If you're Jacob Rees-Mogg, back to 1741. And if you're Nigel Farage, you just demand that 'Clocks Should Go Back Where They Came From." @disavowtrump20 Jeff Bezos has forced The Washington Post - the newspaper he owns - to not endors...

Send us Fan Mail The club of 1984. A walk down memory lane Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 10.45am, Monday 28 October, 2024 I am sitting in Bold Street Coffee (est 2010) It’s one of a range of coffee shops and rather swanky bars which have replaced the West wing of the old Manchester Business School off Booth Street West. I’m about to join the 40 year reunion of MBA graduates at what is now t...

Send us Fan Mail Cricket’s dirty secret revealed.  I am utterly gobsmacked. Flabbergasted. Dumbfounded. Discombobulated. Shocked to my underparts. Shaken and stirred. My entire sense of reality upset. This morning, early enough for me to suspect I had been dreaming, I heard the hideous truth about the cornerstone of everything British, the game of cricket. I am not alone.  Scales dropped from my e...

Send us Fan Mail Monday, the 21st of October The East Cheadle second team begins it season with a lengthy trip to a newcomer to the league Glossop. Our new captain Jim continues to show off the luxury of driving in his super new BMW. His enthusiasm stretches to picking up various members of the team transporting us to the event. The pick ups are executed smoothly. we set off into the night. We hav...

Send us Fan Mail The Dilemmas of a new King: Charles 111 heckled on his State Visit to Australia. Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards  On October 21, 2024, the 70 year-old King Charles is making his first visit to Australia since acceding to the throne. His time as King has been troubled with serious health problems.  His earlier role as Prince of Wales was frequently interrupted by Welsh Nationa...

Send us Fan Mail Why I don’t edit my podcasts. It’s not entirely sloth, or obsessive need for closure Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards 20 October, 2024 I have friends who are far more tech-savvy than I am. One asked me directly recently why I didn’t remove the various audio blubs or whatever they are called from my podcasts. The others probably remain silent to stop further discussion of podca...

Send us Fan Mail A brilliant fighting draw for the injury-hit first team: Urmston v East Cheadle irregulars Thursday 17 October 2024 It’s the nightmare of travelling to the gates of hell and through the Urmston roundabout, year after year. The great Welsh philosopher Dai Nickerbockers called this the perpetual recurrence.nightmare, but that’s a different story. So, to the tale of pulsating matches...

Send us Fan Mail The Photograph of 63. A short story by Stephen Tranter It gives me a lot of pleasure to introduce this podcast. It’s a prize-winning short story written by and read by Steven Tranter.  He says it’s partly biographic. I’d say it’s a fine example of a creative work from an experienced author. If you like what you are about to listen to, you will be able find examples of Steve’s nove...

Send us Fan Mail ‘Institutions under siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State’ , by John Campbell, A review’ Prepared by Tudor Rickards, Monday 14 October, 2024. The most debated political question of the year is arguably ‘Will Donald Trump win the Presidency of the United States for the Second Time? (Or for the third time, as the question might be posed by Trump’s MAGA supporters). Let’s st...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and wisdom, October 2024 This podcast could have been dominated by the Middleton East crisis. Instead, the Nobel prize announcements caught my eye. The posts about Netanyahu capture rage, anger, frustration, and scapegoating, but unsurprisingly no wit, and not a lot of wisdom.  @TollytB I just asked my girlfriend, "Is it just me, or is the cat getting fat?" "No,...

Send us Fan Mail An innovator describes his process of Invention. This morning, I received a email from an old friend, Ram Kumar Saxena. We have kept in touch for many years since he wrote an article about his invention processes for the then new journal, Creativity and Innovation Management. He kindly updated me on his thoughts, which he hoped would be of value in my current efforts at updating m...

Send us Fan Mail To my chess students and parents. A ‘Sunday sermon’. I came across a summary of my often repeated message to chess students. It’s useful, too for parents wanting to encourage them.  Here is the advice from Marks Meadows a chess coach,  which I hope is already familiar, and could have come from my ‘Sunday sermons’. The advice comes in two parts. To get better, Mark says: 'Memo...

Send us Fan Mail How to explain Social Constructionism to a Scientist, and why it matters Together with a team of teaching colleagues, I have been introducing  participants on business courses to an approach for developing leadership skills. The results of earlier courses turned into the book Dilemmas of Leadership which reached its third edition in 2015. I am now considering what would be needed...