It is common knowledge that we humans can find change hard but right now, it feels like everything is changing around us. We are being asked to stay at home, our work is now online and our children are not at school. We can console ourselves that we are lucky that...
The psychologist, Manfred Kets de Vries recounts a Sufi tale in his book. In this story, a man notices a lump under a rug which he tries in vain to flatten before lifting the rug to find a snake. Kets de Vries uses this story as a metaphor for trying to create change...
I love to swim. But, for many people, swimming or being underwater is a frightening experience. Many of us, even the most confident swimmers, will remember the scary feeling of having to go to the deep end of the pool for the first time. Being out of your depth can...
I’m often asked about my company name. Firstly, how do you spell Feldspar and secondly, what does it mean? Why did I choose it? Well, I love moonstones and jewellery and so hit upon ‘Feldspar’ as my company name which is the geological term for the...
The chess fans reading this will know that Deep Thought was a computer developed to play chess against the best (human) chess players in the world. The science fiction fans among us will know that Deep Thought was named after the computer with the same name from The...
I am currently writing up my PhD which focuses on how organisations manage change. Well, there is more to it than that but it takes a while to explain! Anyway, I was reflecting the other day on the key themes that have come out of my research so far and once I had...
