Dave Aron
@davearon
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Unthinker. VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, Passionate about the new and unusual. Opinions my own.
London
Joined January 2009
I published my first novel. It is a vigilante themed book mostly set in Southeast Asia. If you read it, I hope you like it! https://t.co/76XSxGuFcH
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I can’t believe how poor the service I am receiving from @virginmedia is. Been struggling for 2 months with broadband upgrade. Hours wasted on the phone waiting for and talking to call centre. Feel like I should sue them for disrupting my work.
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Rewatching clips of the awesome @FrankieBoyle abuse his audience, it occurs to me that, as a morbidly obese Jew who is an IT consultant, married to a younger Thai wife, I may be a secret weapon designed by the CIA to explode Frankie's mind with the possibilities of insulting me.
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Thought for the day: Finding the strength in your weakness https://t.co/FHAwJygKNN
#unthink #leadership #strategy #resilience #empathy #selfawareness
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Thought for the day: Finding the strength in your weakness I want to start with an example that sounds a bit pathetic/ self-victimizing, but please humour me: As I have previously written, I have...
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Thought for the day - How deep is your ‘listening stack’? https://t.co/ONu5R6VOz3
#listening #learning #communication
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If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts.
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Thought for the day: We must fight our urge to impose simple narratives on everything. https://t.co/QuGo016ge0
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Thought for the day: We must each strive to be strategic globalists, not frogs under coconut shells. #globalization #comparativeadvantage #culture #values
https://t.co/zakm2lhHej
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Thought for the day: We must each strive to be strategic globalists, not frogs under coconut shells. There is a lovely Thai saying: “A frog under a coconut shell” (“กบในกะลา”). Someone very opinion...
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Thought for the day: Climate change, equality, deep fakes, privacy, ethics of automation/AI etc. are the easy issues to address, preserving/enhancing our humanity is the tough one. #sustainability #equality #diversity #inclusion #ethics #ai #privacy
https://t.co/0l3gI244UT
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Thought for the day: Climate change, equality, deep fakes, privacy, ethics of automation/AI etc. are the easy issues to address, preserving/enhancing our humanity is the tough one. I suspect this...
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A thought for the weekend: The power of brevity, the invisibility of sacred cows and the yin/yang of intellectual property. #communication #strategy #creativity #growth
https://t.co/qbx8Z7KlTg
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A thought for the weekend: The power of brevity, the invisibility of sacred cows and the yin/yang of intellectual property The UK comedian Jimmy Carr looked for the shortest possible joke he could...
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let's make our personal and professional lives better by focusing on synergy. https://t.co/2X4iLEZgwX
#strategy #success #winning #synergies
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Thought for the day: What makes us sad, at work and elsewhere, and what should we do about it? https://t.co/prIG8azSiO
#mentalheath #sadness
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Thought for the day: great presentations and business communications don’t start with technique. #presentation #communication #communicationskills #leadership
https://t.co/kYB3LFm05S
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Thought for the day: great presentations and business communications don’t start with technique. There are a bazillion books, videos and training courses about presentation skills. (And probably a...
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Thought for the day: In a hyper-connected, hyper-transparent, hyper-speed world, we must all become water chestnuts. #integrity #leadership #trust
https://t.co/cOkMBw2XRK
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Thought for the day: In a highly digital world, we need to unask like an annoying child to achieve deep innovation https://t.co/Clt9y4dKfH
#unask #innovation
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Thought for the day: we must both respect and ignore age at work. #ageism #diversityisntdiverseenough
https://t.co/od40qpoq3f
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I just turned 55 yesterday. I completely get that people can argue whether that is or isn’t old, but just for the purpose of this article, let’s pretend it is.
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Thought for the day: In an uncertain world, how do we manage our addiction to certainty? https://t.co/FmHfaHUqlw
#uncertainty #risk #antifragility
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