by Greg Smith | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles
Life Consultants ARTICLES Catastrophe theory, or slippery slope? Catastrophe Theory is an amusing mathematical wheeze which posits an abrupt and probably unexpected switch. Developed by French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, it describes how a relatively...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES You cannot erase remembered pain Fred Hertzberg was an American psychologist well known in the 60s for his sensible theories and recommendations around job satisfaction and productivity; he was largely responsible for the wider appreciation...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Failure, Fault and Blame Ah, this old hobby horse. If only more people rode it (dodgy metaphor, but let it go). Mostly, the meanings and values seem to be misunderstood. Failure means non-occurrence, lack of success, objective unachieved, the...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Father Brown G.K. Chesterton’s character Father Brown was inclined to say “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution; it is that they can’t see the problem”. Gosh, isn’t that so often what humans do?...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business
Life Consultants ARTICLES Keeping staff informed. If not, why not? If you’re an employee, do you know what’s going on? If you’re a manager, do you share with your team? If a business is not doing well, one of the best ways to accelerate its demise is...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES What you can’t put in the book In a discussion about biographies somebody said “The problem with the autobiography is that you can’t include the important truths until everybody is dead – and that includes the...
