On my way to Manchester today. Sitting on the train wondering whether to accept invitations to Lima and Tehran of all places. Bit upset that I had to say no to Moscow recently (a TEDx event) but it’s slap bang in the middle of school holidays.

Very interesting lunch with Napier Collyns yesterday. If you don’t know him, he worked at Shell Oil under Pierre Wack in the 1970s and was part of the original team that developed the use of scenario planning within commercial organisations. The night before it was dinner with Alan seekers, an equally lovely and fascinating man whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years. He was, until recently, a professor of Media. I miss living in Sydney on many levels, but I must admit that the people you can easily bump into in London makes the rain and David Cameron worthwhile.

So a quote:

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed “- Charles Darwin.