Why it’s groovy to be in a jazz combo
Like most middle-class parents in the 1970s, my mum and dad dreamt of me becoming an accomplished pianist. At the age of seven, they shipped me off to piano...
It’s time men got into the gender equality conversation
It has been over two years since I co-founded Token Man, an initiative to get men to understand the challenges women face and to inspire real behaviour change in...
The invisible hand of creativity: adding value to crowdsourcing
Last week I had a bit of a go at various forms of supposedly collaborative idea generation and creativity. Much of the piece was focused on the various awful...
Stop thinking about people as minorities or women. We’re 360 individuals.
Katz Kiely is an organisational change expert (and a truly brilliant human being). She kindly gave me an hour of her time to have a chat about what she’s...
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...
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...