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047 | Put Yourself In The Place Of The Man At The Forge
August 26, 2020
Jacob and I have known each other for a few years, first meeting in the earliest days of the forming of Merchant23. Jacob keeps growing the business but is...
Lift Off
August 20, 2020
I have been planning this for a while and happy to report that the new People First Podcast went live on August 18th. The only URL you really need is...
046 | Two People Talking Inside Your Brain
August 18, 2020
Part two of my conversation with long-time friend and colleague Stuart Robbins. The conversation fell into two parts - this is part two. Part One Is Here. As...
045 | We're Seein' Mirror To Mirror
August 18, 2020
I called long-time friend and colleague Stuart Robbins to let him know that we would be doing an occasional podcast together. We ended up talking - as you do...
044 | To Hear Your Wonderous Stories
August 18, 2020
There is no point in talking about People First and its principles in the abstract without bringing the lessons down to earth. In this episode, John gives...
043 | Tryin' To Help The People
August 18, 2020
The People First Framework - With The 8 Pillars The Weekly Newsletter For each pillar, John shares a truth ... asking questions that society seems to have...
Regrets, I've Had A Few
August 13, 2020
My podcast launches next week and this week was more than a little hectic, so sharing an unpublished story from Travels Without Charlie. “You’re a long way...
Worlds Colliding
August 7, 2020
If you haven’t already … why not add your email so you don’t miss out on future issues. Subscribe now There’s an old poker line - “when you look around the...
042 | May I Introduce To You ...
August 1, 2020
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The Book Of Job
July 30, 2020
Sticking to the topic of jobs for the moment. Of all the articles about the ‘future of jobs’ that I have read this year, this, from Forbes is definitely my...
Taxi !!!!!!
July 23, 2020
Before we get into it … last week was the second part of the ‘skills’ topic which resulted in an email to me … “You can be all those things, John, but you...
The Future Is Here
July 15, 2020
This Newsletter arrives via johnphilpin@substack.com - you might want to add that into your address book to ensure that spam filters don’t misdirect such...
Everything Is Connected
July 9, 2020
WOW - Busy Week. I asked for comments. I got them. Thank you. I am also moving the send date out one day these next two weeks - and another day after that...
Skill or Character
June 30, 2020
Housekeeping : A new color for highlights making it easier to comment on and share the newsletter. Don't hold back ... and let’s get the dialogue going!...
The Future Is Boring And Predictable
June 23, 2020
The Boring Collection: Lensvelt’s deliberately drab furnitureI am really disappointed by the lack of thinking by people that write and present about what the...
'A' Future - Not 'The' Future
June 16, 2020
If you aren’t already subscribed - no worries - we’ve got a button for that! Subscribe now I was a teenager when I had an idea that connected what we now...
Roadblocks
June 9, 2020
Did you get here because some amazing friend said - go take a read? Want to make sure that you don’t miss out again? There’s a button for that! Subscribe now...
The Things We Say
June 2, 2020
I wrote another newsletter for today, but to riff on James Corden's monologue last night .. I am pretty sure that not one of you woke up this morning and...
Flying High
May 26, 2020
Iguassu Falls, Brazil/Argentina - Murray Foubister.I got my skills very early in life and never looked back. A lot of people in my line of work are ex-...
Always Stay In Your Own Movie
May 20, 2020
Talk about resonance. Thanks to all of you for responding to last week's newsletter. I hit a nerve. This week's newsletter is 90% written by a very good...
If You Don't Value Yourself ...
May 13, 2020
A little twist on last week’s newsletter, (my thanks to all of you that responded) where I wrote that ‘value’ is a function of more than fiscal measures....
Fifty
April 28, 2020
Welcome to issue Fifty of this newsletter, an opportunity to say thank-you to each and every one of you that on this journey with a big ‘tilt of head’ and...
What's Next?
April 21, 2020
The choice is yours! The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.… Abraham Lincoln If you aren’t already subscribed - no worries - we’ve got...
Nobody Should Adopt Social Distancing.
April 14, 2020
I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘Social Distancing’. It’s wrong. We should not be Social Distancing. You know I am right. You aren’t doing it either. Nobody...
On The Frontline.
April 8, 2020
“They come for three months - they stay for four years - and I welcome that. That’s how we learn. They see us up close and personal and we see them. A lot of...
Value?
April 1, 2020
If you aren’t already subscribed - no worries - we’ve got a button for that! Subscribe now I hope this finds you well in these strange and strained times. My...
Extra! Extra!
March 27, 2020
The Pinball Wizard in a miracle cure! … and no. No Covid-19 ‘miracle cure’ that I know of. I am just keeping with my musical references from another era!...
Good Things Happen.
March 24, 2020
It’s always important to share good news and good stories - even more so in the times we find ourselves in. This is one of those stories. I’ve known Carl for...
People First!
March 17, 2020
Why People First? It’s a question that I am often asked. Why not? If not people, then what should be first? Bonus points to any reader if you write and tell...
We Live In A Viral World.
March 10, 2020
If you aren’t already subscribed - no worries - we’ve got a button for that! Subscribe now Don’t we all want our YouTube video or Instagram post to go viral?...
Data?
March 3, 2020
From the series ‘Pillar Reflections’. Read more about the series. Data Is The New Oil.. Clive Humby, 2006 .. he goes on - ‘but worthless until refined’!...
Technology?
February 26, 2020
From the series ‘Pillar Reflections’. Read more about the series. We live in the thrall of technology. ‘Shiny Things’, that deliver ‘squirrel’ interruptions...
Identity?
February 18, 2020
One of a series of ‘Reflections’. Always revealing differences. Often adding new facets. To know the reflection is to understand the subject. Share I don’t...
Who's Responsible?
February 11, 2020
My Newsletter provider (Substack) has just enabled comments/discussion for ‘all’, so short newsletter and lots of room for comments. Let us all know what you...
When You Connect The Dots
February 4, 2020
Facial recognition is spreading through the world like a virus. I wrote about facial recognition company ‘Clearview’ a couple of weeks ago. (Here.) In Joseph...
Crisis? What Crisis?
January 28, 2020
Mark Twain didn’t say; “History never repeats itself but it rhymes.” .. but it is a famous line that plays well with this week’s missive that emerges from a...
Putting An Old Face On Privacy
January 21, 2020
George Orwell passed away 70 years ago today (January 21st), so in commemoration, it seemed ‘right to write’ about privacy, security, surveillance, et al....
It's Never Too Late
January 14, 2020
Neil Peart passed away this last week. Just 67 years young. Brain Cancer. A very human musician working in an increasingly digital industry proving that we...
It's Amazing What's Possible ...
January 7, 2020
I left the UK about 5 years ago been here for six months, before that Iceland ... next stop Australia. Just travelling the world and looking around? Must be...
2020 Vision
December 31, 2019
Everything can change on a new years dayEverything can change on a new years dayEverything can change on a new years dayAnd everything changed on a New...
Opportunity Knocks
December 24, 2019
"Me? I'm from England ... you’ve heard of the 'Garden of England'?“ “I have - Kent right?” “That’s the one. Every garden needs a compost heap, that’s the...
The Future Of Income
December 17, 2019
All my newsletters end with a request for feedback with results that vary from ‘crickets’ to an overloaded inbox. Sometimes, communication comes with a...
Value
December 10, 2019
Time we talked about it, given that it is one of the eight pillars of People First! I was struck by this recent post from Scott Galloway and in particular...
Passion, Commitment, Dreams
December 3, 2019
If an entire book can be written called; Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead, I think I can use music to punctuate points. This...
Thankyou ...
November 26, 2019
It's a short week in America - so a short newsletter seems appropriate and the topic - well, how about Thank you. Thank you, each and every one of you, for...
A Four Letter Word Ending In K
November 19, 2019
Last week I wrote that The Future of Work is not The Gig Economy. No surprise really, but sometimes it has to be said. The breathless commentaries that get...
The Future Of Work?
November 12, 2019
I attended one of those ‘Future Of Work’ conferences a couple of weeks ago. The discussion centered on managing the gig economy, parity and fairness for gig...
The Gig Is Up.
November 5, 2019
Funny, this is the second time in as many months that my weekly topic has intersected with Om Malik. “Silicon Valley is good at coming up with bullshit...
Stay Safe.
October 28, 2019
… and all of our thanks to Firefighters and First Responders working in Sonoma and other parts of California right now. No Newsletter this week, except for...
Keep It Simple.
October 22, 2019
Last week’s newsletter took on an unprecedented energy in terms of views, click throughs, emails received and conversations had. Sometimes I wonder if people...
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