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Ian Beckett

@becketti

Digital transformation and behaviour management consultant, poet & CEO

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Joined April 2009
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Don't Panic: The Outlier Has Upset the System linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn

Don't Panic: The Outlier Has Upset the System

Organisations say they want people who think differently. They advertise for innovators, reward curiosity and insist that challenging the status quo is part of their culture.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: DON'T PANIC: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca - Three Men Who Understood That Life Is Not Obliged to Cooperate. linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn

DON'T PANIC: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca - Three Men Who Understood That Life Is Not...

Two thousand years ago, three men living extraordinarily different lives developed a philosophy that remains remarkably relevant to managing people, confronting adversity and finding meaning in a...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: DON’T PANIC: I Didn’t Create the Crisis. I Just Stopped Hiding It. linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn
DON’T PANIC: I Didn’t Create the Crisis. I Just Stopped Hiding It.

DON’T PANIC: I Didn’t Create the Crisis. I Just Stopped Hiding It.

Fifty years of corporate transformation taught me that sometimes the most effective way to overcome resistance is to let reality do the persuading. When I was fourteen, I dismantled the Sturmey-Arc...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: DON'T PANIC: The Optimist, the Bully and the Corporate Graveyard linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn

DON'T PANIC: The Optimist, the Bully and the Corporate Graveyard

Emotional intelligence, not intimidation, determines who thrives as multinational technology companies rise and fall. After almost fifty years working in multinational technology companies, I have...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: DON'T PANIC: Kierkegaard, My BMW and the Rear-View Mirror of Life linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn
DON'T PANIC: Kierkegaard, My BMW and the Rear-View Mirror of Life

DON'T PANIC: Kierkegaard, My BMW and the Rear-View Mirror of Life

I recently discovered that my BMW is an existential philosopher — and so did those of you who realised my attempt at boating was a sunk-cost allegory. BMW doesn’t advertise this particular option.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: DON’T PANIC: The BMW Sank - I Didn’t linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn
DON’T PANIC: The BMW Sank - I Didn’t

DON’T PANIC: The BMW Sank - I Didn’t

My BMW M760e can do almost everything. Four-wheel drive.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Why Can't You Stop Doing the Wrong Thing? linkedin.com/pulse/why-cant-… via @LinkedIn
Why Can't You Stop Doing the Wrong Thing?

Why Can't You Stop Doing the Wrong Thing?

Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knights works extraordinarily well with the world of Wednesday because it does something rare: it is simultaneously threatening, elegant, repetitive and ridiculously memora...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What We Talk About in the Pub: 60 Years of Work in Ten Pints linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-t… via @LinkedIn
What We Talk About in the Pub: 60 Years of Work in Ten Pints

What We Talk About in the Pub: 60 Years of Work in Ten Pints

You can learn a great deal about business by reading annual reports, studying strategy presentations and listening to CEOs explain the future. Or you can go to the pub.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: What is the Practical use of Existential Philosophy in Business? linkedin.com/pulse/what-prac… via @LinkedIn
What is the Practical use of Existential Philosophy in Business?

What is the Practical use of Existential Philosophy in Business?

Existential philosophy is surprisingly practical in business because business is ultimately a series of choices made under uncertainty by people who cannot know the outcome in advance. That is almost...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Data Centre Isn’t the Product Anymore linkedin.com/pulse/data-cent… via @LinkedIn

The Data Centre Isn’t the Product Anymore

Everyone thinks the AI race is about building bigger data centres — it isn’t. It’s about building data centres that still work when everything else stops.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: They Didn't Kill the Message. They Killed the Messenger. linkedin.com/pulse/didnt-kil… via @LinkedIn
They Didn't Kill the Message. They Killed the Messenger.

They Didn't Kill the Message. They Killed the Messenger.

If you’ve ever tried to change a large organisation, here’s some comforting news. The resistance you’re experiencing probably isn’t personal.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Ferris Bueller Wasn't About Skipping School. He Was Attending Life. linkedin.com/pulse/ferris-bu… via @LinkedIn
Ferris Bueller Wasn't Skipping School. He Was Attending Life.

Ferris Bueller Wasn't Skipping School. He Was Attending Life.

When Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was released in 1986, it looked like a comedy about a teenager skipping school, borrowing a Ferrari and somehow escaping the consequences. Looking back, I think we all...

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How to Paint It Black

The Rolling Stones released Aftermath in 1966, when I was ten. The US version included Paint It Black, a song that has unexpectedly become my favourite mnemonic for business transformation.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Philosophy Makes Psychology Work linkedin.com/pulse/philosoph… via @LinkedIn

Philosophy Makes Psychology Work

Two thousand years ago, the Greeks turned to philosophers to explain how to survive war, love, power, betrayal, and the chaos of being human. Their gods ruled the heavens, but they rarely bothered...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Bureaucracy Sinks a Company linkedin.com/pulse/bureaucra… via @LinkedIn

Bureaucracy Sinks a Company

Jamie Dimon says bureaucracy sinks companies, and the solution may be getting rid of the 'jerks' who don't want to solve it. "Bureaucracy, complacency, and arrogance will take down a company," he...

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: How to Be a Toxic Manager linkedin.com/pulse/how-toxic… via @LinkedIn
How to Be a Toxic Manager

How to Be a Toxic Manager

Most management articles explain how to be a better leader. Very few explain how to be a truly dreadful one.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Why Is Shabbat Important If You Are Not Jewish? linkedin.com/pulse/why-shabb… via @LinkedIn
Why Is Shabbat Important If You Are Not Jewish?

Why Is Shabbat Important If You Are Not Jewish?

Busyness is the best excuse for avoiding necessary change. In his book, Sabbath, Joshua Heschel writes, “Labour is a craft, but perfect rest is an art”.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Don’t Panic. The Robots Are Early. You Are Late linkedin.com/pulse/dont-pani… via @LinkedIn
Don’t Panic. The Robots Are Early. You Are Late

Don’t Panic. The Robots Are Early. You Are Late

Somewhere between the fourth board slide on “AI Strategy” and the third coffee of the morning, a quiet panic has begun. Not the loud, apocalyptic panic of science fiction.

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Why Stupidity Is More Dangerous Than Malice linkedin.com/pulse/why-stupi… via @LinkedIn
Why Stupidity Is More Dangerous Than Malice

Why Stupidity Is More Dangerous Than Malice

I have deployed organisational change in my companies for over 40 years. The Challenge For many years, I struggled to understand why some people resisted strategic change, even though it was shown to...

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