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Send us Fan Mail In the memorial event in his honour at the Edward de Bono Institute of the University of Malta, I would like to offer a personal perspective, reflecting on his life and his contributions to creativity. Edward de Bono, is perhaps the most influential communicator on the nature of creative thinking in recent times. His fame came early through his book Lateral Thinking, first publish...

Send us Fan Mail If I were a cat, you might say that this week I lost one of my proverbial nine lives. I was driving home from a game of tennis at the Wimbledon of the North, aka The Northern Squash and Tennis Club. It was a crisp morning with clear blue skies. The traffic was light as I approached the turn-off at the new relief road to the airport. What happened next is partly blotted out from my...

Send us Fan Mail The Coronation of Charles the third in London this week has made news around the world. But I want to share news of another Coronation which deserves more publicity. I’m referring to the coronation of Ding Lauren, who was crowned as World Chess Champion.  Ding, although a youthful prodigy, in his native China, never shot to stardom, but progressed sedately to become a strong grand...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle O’Neill is nominated Leader of the Month for April 2023 by the Leaders we deserve blog. Her current political label is First Minister Designate of Northern Ireland.  The selection of  Sinn Féin’s vice-president, Michelle O’Neill, is more controversial than many others. She will become the First Minister of the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormount, currently in limbo thr...

Send us Fan Mail Richard Sharp was appointed  as Director General of the BBC (The Chairman, in business speak) in 2021. He has been mired in controversy ever since.  A recent decision resulted in the high profile standing-down by the BBC of Gary Lineker, and a hasty and somewhat fudged reinstatement of the football commentator.  Mr Sharp’s resignation today followed the criticisms in the findings...

Send us Fan Mail To begin at the beginning. My story is about the power of the Hollywood dream machine. But it is also Welsh. Very Welsh, as you will soon hear.  The non-league football club of Wrexham,  a  town tucked away in   the borders of North Wales, attracts the attention of two Hollywood movie stars, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney The story was always destined to turn into a Hollywood bl...

Send us Fan Mail I was preparing for the Govt emergency warning trial, when another phonemail interrupted me with far more important news. I decided to complete my bath, an increasingly necessary part of maintaining my body in fine shape after a gruelling game of doubles tennis this morning. But when I replied to the phone call I found myself listening to a very proud mum, bursting to share some s...

Send us Fan Mail I interview Dr Murray Clark, an expert on trust-based leadership, and the current case involving Dominic Raab. Murray is co-author of our book Dilemmas of Leadership. He kindly interrupted his holiday preparations for the interview which explains the sound quality which even Buzzsprout editing could not improve. Murray explains how gaining trust is 'a two-way street'. We...

Send us Fan Mail Rishi Sunak faces a serious leadership problem dealing with the report of the bullying accusations made about his deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab. This leaves the Prime Minister facing the classic leadership dilemma of facing two unpalatable options of sacking Raab or supporting him. He will find a valuable lesson to the response by Elon Musk to his space flight yesterday  whic...

Send us Fan Mail The scene is set in Snip hairdressers, Somewhere in the Cheshire Blue Rinse belt A Customer arrives at the reception desk and smiles at the receptionist ... 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'...

Send us Fan Mail The National Park in South Wales known as the Brecon Beacons has a new name. The switch - to Bannau Brycheiniog National Park - took effect on Monday 17 April 2023, its 66th anniversary. The Welsh name means "the peaks of Brychan's kingdom" and is pronounced ban-aye bruch-ein-iog, with the ch making the same sound as in loch. However, perhaps inevitably, the new nam...

Send us Fan Mail Twitter has seen substantial changes under the new ownership of Elon Musk. But some tweeters have retained their sense of humour, and often offered flashes of wisdom. Here are some twelve selected from the early weeks of April. Thanks to @deelomas (2 nominations) @ModigThe @MachTownclock @sturgess_steve @ArtCrunchy @MarieAnnUK  @SydesJokes @kercle @CosmopolitanUK @stephenfarrow @E...

Send us Fan Mail This week, the BBC has been reporting extensively on an interview with Elon Musk. In it, the new owner of Twitter declared his total commitment to accurate news reporting, and that they would be relabelling the BBC from a State Broadcaster to a Public Service Organisation. The interview had all the hallmarks of a whacky piece of show business. It had been triggered by a BBC report...

Send us Fan Mail 'In Bumble, Women are White'. I Came across this cryptic remark in an account reported in in the rather serious online forum Quora. To even to start to understand what seems like a provocative racially loaded statement you need to know that Bumble is an online dating site. Profiles of potential matches are displayed to users, who can "swipe left" to reject a ca...

Send us Fan Mail The latest gun massacres in America has led to the predictable fruitless outcomes. President Biden expresses outrage, compassion for the victims, but with little sign of any effective initiative. Republicans continue to reject efforts to legislate to restrict access to high powered weapons like the ones used in the recent  killings at a school in Nashville last week. Outside the U...

Send us Fan Mail An interesting aspect of sporting excellence is the impact of being part of a sporting family. I decided to take advantage of a family visit recently to investigate how sport inspires them, and why each family member  eventually settled on their favourite sport or sports. Parents: Paul and Teresa Rickards Offspring Morgan, Freddy and Evan Rickards Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor...

Send us Fan Mail How to estimate your chess grade using Lichess Lesson 1 Getting started This lesson is for chess players who have never been given a chess grade. Your grade is an indication of your strength. You can use the podcast with halt and restarts to support your efforts So, step one.  Get acquainted with Lichess The first step. Log into  https://lichess.org/ Don’t be deterred by the compl...

Send us Fan Mail Finnish conservative leader Petteri Orpo has won a close three-way election race, defeating the centre left coalition led by Prime Minister Sanna Marin.  Marin had became a rockstar politician, with a rise and fall in her popularity similar to that of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern. Sanna Marin remains popular and has an impressive political record moving Finland towards entry into...

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Send us Fan Mail I report on one of my most instructive chess losses in my life. And that’s a lot of chess losses. Its lessons go far beyond the chess board. The painful experience took place in the last match of the season in Division one of the Stockport Chess League. But before I go further, I should mention why it reminds me of an old story about the boiled frog. The story, now accepted as a m...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Birthday , CAIM Creativity and innovation management journal has been an important part of my life for over 30 years. This year, the journal celebrates its 30th birthday and I almost forgot to send a birthday card.  Instead, here is my podcast to all my friends at the journal. If I go back in time, I remember that the journal came about after many years before when I practis...

Send us Fan Mail Hi, how are you? I gaze at the approaching stranger? My mind goes blank.  I manage to stop myself uttering the first words that came into my head. Sorry, do we know each other?  Now he’s shaking my hand. Vigourously. He is gentleman of mature age, smiling, but not in a frenzied fashion. If anything, too well-dressed and groomed to be one of my close acquaintances.  The family gath...

Send us Fan Mail Should creativity and chess be included in the Olympic Games? The immediate answer might be no. But as is often the case, the immediate answer might overlook some interesting discussion points. Creativity actually does take place in a sort of Olympic Games, as does chess. The Mind Sports Olympiad is a regular event. It has over 100 different competitions including Chess. There is...

Send us Fan Mail Tudorama offers three favourite jokes about penguins. Listeners are invited to send in their own jokes. You aren't confined to jokes about penguins ... 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&ap...

Send us Fan Mail My story goes back to 2015. I arrived early for the Executive Business Course at what was then the Manchester Business school. One of the executives had already arrived and was quietly working at a place he had chosen towards the back of the room, I started to arrange my notes for the course on leadership and change management. It was part of the induction period for a new cohort...