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There are some commitments we make when we make a call or a stand for something. And when it is something that is meaningful and real - and often human-centric things have these qualities - there are many other responsibilities that come with this kind of commitment.

To shift any established...

There has been a lot happening recently and I have to say, keeping this site up to date has taken an unwilling back seat. it seems though, I will be coming back on line to fill these pages with my thoughts, offerings and interesting reads.

For those of you still with me, thank you for your...

Melis was a recent guest of Jon Faine on his weekly ABC Radio segment The Conversation Hour, joining Sarah Moran, co-founder and the CEO of Girl Geek Academy, and Juliet Kinchin, Curator of Modern Design in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

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We don’t have to squint our eyes too much to see the link between the four business cycles and nature’s seasons. Although we don’t really run our businesses that way, well not deliberately anyway.

Rorty (1922) defined four phases of the economic cycle as revival, prosperity,...

I recently spoke about the dark side of entrepreneurship at a conference called The Business Romantic. The topic of business romance intrigues me, I love it because the two words don't really belong together unless you're up to something. But generally, when we think of the word business we don't...

Have ever fallen in love with your own idea? I have. There are a time and place for this kind of love, and when you get the timing wrong, it really stings.

Solution seduction is a term we started using at Huddle in 2009 when we were trying to explain the difference between a convergent...

I often think about how important communication is in shaping our future. Our work is only as good as how well we can communicate it. We focus so much on the content, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’, and much less time on the ‘who’ and the ‘why’. Over the...

Many legacies of the industrial revolution no longer serve us in the 21st century. Such legacies as efficiency and convenience were borne as a result of a trade off. These trade offs were unconscious as we became increasingly effective in manufacturing and production. I'd like to explore...

Beliefs are like a pair of sunglasses. Like polarisation, they filter out certain realities and let others in, shaping our thoughts and creating our realities. The filtering happens automatically, at the subconscious level and so beliefs can be tricky to shift. Though, knowing where they...

In design we often say that anything is possible, and perhaps we need to believe in this so we can creatively find an alternative to the status quo. The most powerful mechanism that manifests this belief of anything is possible is the power of the little word “AND”.

In business we...