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Ian Beckett@beckettiOct 18

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiOct 14

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.

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiOct 11

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiOct 4

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

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiOct 1

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

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

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Ian Beckett@beckettiSep 22

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?

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiAug 22

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

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiAug 18

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?

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiAug 13

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiAug 9

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.

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiAug 6

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.

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiJul 30

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: How to Paint It Black linkedin.com/pulse/how-paint… via @LinkedIn

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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@TheRickWilsonJul 22

It looks like Liberace and Saddam designed a 19th New Orleans century whorehouse, without the taste and elegance.

@Scavino47Jul 22

7/21/26 | The Oval Office🇺🇸🦅

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Ian Beckett@beckettiMay 26

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiMay 4

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiApr 18

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

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

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Ian Beckett@beckettiMar 5

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?

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiFeb 25

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

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiFeb 5

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

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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Ian Beckett@beckettiJan 30

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Why Is A Cat So Valuable to Science? linkedin.com/pulse/why-cat-s… via @LinkedIn

Why Is A Cat So Valuable to Science?

From the perspective of my faithful dog:- Cats are indispensable I hate cats; they steal my food and pretend to love my master. They have practised for thousands of years and have wormed their way...

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