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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...

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...