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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...

Send us Fan Mail Did the Vice Presidential debate swing the needle in the swing states? Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards October 2 2024 The debate between Vice Presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance was billed as a possible electoral game changer. Whatever else it did, this was a real exchange of views around matters of interest to the public. And within the debate, there was a reason...

Send us Fan Mail The worst weather of this miserable late-summer turned dripping autumn. I give up on my target steps of the day, driving the short distance for groceries fording the rising water levels. Settle for quiet evening ... Doorbell. Some Amazon product  I had forgotten? Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter...

Send us Fan Mail I have completed 0.001% of the text of the new edition to my book Friday 27 November 2024 This is a brief account of how I wrote the first sentence to the planned fourth edition of Dilemmas of Leadership. Tudor Rickards “In this book, I show how effective leadership is a form of creative problem-solving applied to resolving important dilemmas” In a typical example, I struggled lat...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom Mid September 2024 Posts dominated by political news so let’s start with more news from the era of AI @demishasabbis Advanced mathematical reasoning is a critical capability for modern AI. Today we announce a major milestone in a longstanding grand challenge: our hybrid AI system attained the equivalent of a silver medal at this year’s International Math Olympiad! S...

Send us Fan Mail Starmer’s conference speech as a dilemma between gloomy news and light at the end of the tunnel. Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards Tuesday 24 September 2024 Eight weeks into crushing victory in the 2024 General Election, the new Labour government led by Sir Keir Starmer faced its first major dilemma at the start of its annual conference in Liverpool.  In the early weeks, head...

Send us Fan Mail September 23 2024 An audio record of six ideas which were jotted down in support of the new edition of Dilemmas of Leadership this morning. TR Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: every...

Send us Fan Mail Written and narrated by Tudor Rickards, in homage to, and inspired by, an episode of the original peerless Columbo TV series. The story opens as an aging Columbo is playing chess with his grandson Alix. He tells Alix that the opening Alex plays reminds him of a case in which he betters the world champion at the time.  It’s called the fried liver attack. Columbo begins to describe...

Send us Fan Mail The Trump Defense: Why Donald Trump is a Natural Born Genius. As was seen and heard in his debate with Kamala Harris, Donald Trump is sensitive to criticism. He often overreacts to justify any perceived slight.  Recently, he has become even more emphatic that attendance at his rallies are outstanding and for sure no one leaves before the end. A good example of his style took place...

Send us Fan Mail The Trump Harris debate.  Who won, and does it matter? What were Trump’s objectives How did he do? Donald Trump, according to his aides, intended to cast Kamala Harris as being too radical, and to link her to the Biden administration's unpopular policies. He was strong on his condemnation of Kamala Harris but was repeatedly dragged off message where his efforts were often con...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and wisdom Early September 2024 @sandford_Police Someone has been stealing the wheels of police cars We are working tirelessly to catch them @theleaway Got any (jump) leads? @sandford_Police Some positives, some negative @lesmartin7 I'm old enough to remember when emojis were called "hieroglyphics." Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and cu...

Send us Fan Mail How to train your chat bot, and how your chat bot trains you This is a Dilemmas of Leadership audio file to support the planned production of a future edition.  September 5 2024 The title of chapter 5 of dilemmas of leadership is shared meanings and why myths matter. The big idea of the chapter is the reality of leadership. This is an important question to ask. Many Books and arti...

Send us Fan Mail Charisma ain’t what it used to be A Dilemmas of Leadership audiotape 2 September 2024 Chapter 4 of dilemmas of leadership deals with charisma under the title 'Charisma ancient and modern versions'. On my first rereading, I found the chapter in good shape but in considerable need of updating of the examples of charismatic leaders chosen. As the chapter includes historical...

Send us Fan Mail Dealing with Artificial Intelligence Nightmares. A new word is creeping into articles about artificial intelligence with increasing frequency. The word is ‘terrified’. A recent article outlines how the fear of the implications of new AI systems has become as important an issue among scientists as has the fear of global warming. It was in 2023 that articles started in the popular p...

Send us Fan Mail Dilemmas of leadership Chapter one The revisor’s dilemma. What to leave out I’ve finished a careful examination of chapter 1 of Dilemmas of Leadership, edition 3.  Two important issues to be considered.  What to leave out  The basic chapter structure. An unexpected dilemma. What to leave out? My notes already suggest clarifications and improvements. But I am contracted to produce...

Send us Fan Mail @DrAnnieHickox Kirstie Allsopp reported to social services for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad I am no fan of the woman, but for god’s sake, reporting her to social services for allowing her 15 year old to travel abroad with a friend is beyond absurd. @revpaulwhite When I was about 10 I once got a train from Essex to London on my own. I have retrospectively reported my parents...

Send us Fan Mail Toxic Masculinity: The Andrew Tate story and the Southport riots Saturday 24 August,  2024 My attention was captured this morning by a post on X once known as Twitter  I firmly believe that toxic masculinity played a large part in the failure of the UK's Brexit negotiations. our chief negotiators went in for a fight rather than a compromise and simply got outthought. We fritt...

Send us Fan Mail Dilemmas of Leadership Edition 4 Audio note book. Introductory Materials These notes are intended to help me to write a the fourth edition of my textbook Dilemmas of Leadership. I hope that by sharing these notes I will be able to receive feedback so that the learning may be extended to the general challenge of writing a new addition of other textbooks. I am thinking of the projec...

Send us Fan Mail In the recent Olympic Games the athletes have often talked about visualisation and how it helped them achieve their goals. I report on an experiment in which I attempt to remember a task I often forget to my subsequent inconvenience ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativity...

Send us Fan Mail As the games reaches its spectacular concluding ceremonies in Paris, its future remains unclear. The undoubted success of these games have been marred by the controversy over the opening ceremony, and over the boxing legitimacy of the medals won by Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting and Algeria’s Imane Khelif.  Both boxers have been subjected to abuse on social media and speculation about their...

Send us Fan Mail Looking back, the highlights of week one were its dramatic and controversial opening ceremony. Then there was the emergence of the superstar of the games for the home crowds, swimming superstar 22 year old Léon Marchand who won four gold medals.   The other highlights for me were the sensational 100 metres final, in which US the American Noah Lyles won the event  by five-thousandt...