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What on earth are ‘Business Burps’ you may be asking? It was a phrase I thought of whilst … burping. Can you remember as a child when you first let out a burp after gulping a fizzy drink? Wasn’t it a bit exciting (as well as a little bit rude)? Weren’t your parents just a tiny bit embarrassed?

Around two years ago I wrote a manifesto for ‘Change This’ on the topic of slow innovation. This was inspired by the founding of the ‘slow food’ movement by Italian journalist Carlo Petrini. After strolling past a new MacDonald’s franchise in the centre of Rome he paused and said: If this is fast food, why [...]

  Most readers will be familiar with, or have heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling business book ‘The Tipping Point’. The author suggests that there is a point at which you need apply only a small effort to create an effect. This is rather like giving the final push to topple a large boulder or [...]