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2021. A year to live brilliantly.

Artisans vs. Hired Hands

2020 was a mess. What a gift.

The Expert, the Artisan and the Entrepreneur

Reflections. Here we go again.

The Alchemy of Christmastime

Beginnings

Artisans and the Infinite Game

The perils of outsourcing ourselves.

Does obsession with risk make us fragile?

Doing, or being Done Unto...

Reflections 20th December

The Future - Beautifully Flawed?

Good work doesn't have to be big work

The Perpetual Apprentice

The Power of Provenance

2021. Rebooting the Artisans

Artisans create beauty with purpose.

Reflections 13th December

Artisans, Scale and the Goldilocks Community.

Working for the Work

Work worth Doing

Artisans. Learning is a responsibility.

Artisans Improvise

The Artisans of the NHS

Reflections 6th December

Think like an Artisan.

2021. An Artisinal Avalanche?

Artisans - Unconscious Leaders

The Power of Language

The Corporate Artisan

Artisans, Artists, and Buskers

Reflections 29th November

Artisans and Uncertainty

Artisans and Independence

Do not Recycle...

The Artisinal Leader

How big is an Artisan's market?

Reflections 22nd November

The artisan and the algorithm.

Becoming an Artisan

Bring on the Artisans

Artisans market differently.

Return of the Artisan?

Cohorts are a decision

Reflections 15th November

Proximity to the Edge

Shouting in the wind

Decision Time

Our Inner Banksy

Temptation

Pilgrim or Tourist?

Reflections 8 November

Village 2.0?

Making Sense of Now

Less Watching, More Doing

No more Busking

Spring will come, ready or not.

Reflections 1 November

Beyond Complicated

The stories we tell ourselves

A Time for Iconoclasts.

Commitment

A walk towards Uncertainty

Reflections 25th October

Travelling with intent

Window Shopping vs. Purchasing

The Future is Wonky

Gratitude

Firecarriers

Reflections 18th October

We are equal to this

Numbers vs. Emotions

Insight is hard work

The Beauty of Decay

The Limits of Measurement

Reflections 11th October

Change is a mirror

Agency

Simplicity

Reflections 4 October

The Coffee Shop Paradox

Stuck

Weekly Reflections 27th September

Businesses need Grandparents.

Indigenous 2.0?

Echo Chambers

Making Stuff That Matters

The Self Respect Filter

Do one thing

What would it take for money to be beautiful?

Agency

Reflections 13th September

The Alchemy of Coronavirus

Reasons to be cheerful.

Weathering the Storm

Where has all the value gone?

Reflections 6th September

We are what we pay attention to

We are enough

We all have an Inner Simon

Reflections 30th August

Re-thinking

Re-weaving

The Great Fraying?

Reflections Sunday 23rd August

Recirculating vs. Extractive

Less of More

Money as Insulation

Uncertainty, Confusion and Clarity

Using what you've got

Reflections Sunday 16th August

What game are you playing?

Aspirations & Patience

Reflections, Sunday 2nd August

Indicators

Gradually, then Suddenly

Falling between two stools

Back to the office?

Get Weaving!

Broken

For or Against?

Glue

Introvert Problems

Start at the Beginning

No Going Back

Choices

Make the Button Work

We are the standards we set

Scale kills Craft

Balance

Humpty 2.0?

A Time for Beauty

Leadership in times of crisis. Don't look up - look inside, outside and sideways.

Evidence Based Leadership - an Oxymoron??

The Marshmallow Recovery?

A New Age of Self Reliance?

Rent Review

Waving, or Drowning?

Lose the Label

The virtual background problem

Timing

A Place Between

The wrong sort of evidence

Efficient vs. Effective

Oops!

Just play the ball!

Shock Absorbers

Puzzles and Mysteries.

Inefficiency - the antidote to surprises.

Lost is an attitude

The Long Haul

Is it wrong to be energised by this?

Counterfeit is a mindset.

Efficiency comes at a price

Givers

Value and Values

Cheap has a price

Tiny little things

Fear is a waste of imagination

The shadow side of scale

Heavy Lifting Time

Friction

We are craftspeople at heart.

The Soft Supply Chain

The Mother of Invention

From Prepack to Craft

When Rules Fray

Originising