Changing the law: how American police are dealing with prejudice
I was staying in Florida in August 2014 when everything kicked off in Ferguson, Missouri. This was a town that most people had never heard of until Darren Wilson, a white...
What sex is your brain?
There is a small village in the Dominican Republic where something quite magical can happen to 12-year-old girls. The magical thing is that after having been a girl their...
The easy way to destroy women’s creativity
Sometimes it’s hard to believe that we’re living in 2017. Technology is hurtling us towards the future at breakneck speed but the world of business (where many of us...
Flip it to test it
Following on from yesterday’s article where I admitted my own discriminatory weaknesses, today I’m sharing a talk from a woman leader who discovered her bias against women leaders. Kristen...
Confessions of a racist, sexist, ableist, ageist bigot
As I write this article, my two year old daughter is watching a TV programme for toddlers. It’s got irritating music, grating voices and some of the worst animation...
Tackle Diversity. Have a good argument.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the...
Welcome to our first Focal Point: Diversity & Divergency
This article is a pretty historic one for Open for Ideas. For a start, it’s the 100th article we’ve published. That’s a big deal for us! It means we’re...
Creativity is squashed when people don’t feel valued
This week’s Silicon Beach interview is with Benita Motofska, a global expert on the sharing economy. I wanted to talk to her about how to successfully crowd-source ideas without generating...
Great employees are curious and explore things in their own time
Can you believe we’re still publishing these Silicon Beach interviews? And there’s still a few more to come. That was a busy couple of days! Today we’re bringing you...
And while we’re smashing up those fricken’ lightbulbs
Aran really went off on one yesterday with his trashing of the lightbulb cliché. And quite rightly. So I thought I would weigh-in behind him and stamp on any...