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How do you prepare Azeri teachers to provide lessons on Democracy for their pupils? Since we believe you can only learn about democracy - how it works, what it asks of you as a citizen - by experiencing it, we made a Game for Caucasus youth. We blogged about this experiences before. Now, the next step is to support teachers in working with that Game. We chose a similar approach: instead of 'lecturing' and 'explaining' we engaged the teachers in an experience, through which they could learn about how to facilitate learning about democracy. An exciting visit!

It’s official - Kessels & Smit UK is open for business! I am delighted to have joined the company and to be extending the K&S network into the UK. As we make the big announcement, two questions rise to the fore. ‘How did we get here?’ and ‘Where are we going?’

A recent IBM survey finds that creativity is the most important quality for success in business. The survey consisted of 1,500 one-to-one interviews with CEOs and organisational leaders across 60 countries. You might say this is no surprise. In The Future of Management, Gary Hamel sets out that the greatest challenges organisations face today are around adaptation, engagement and innovation. Of course we must be creative. The thing is, when creativity is so critical to business, why does it still feel so difficult to manage? It seems that many organisations understand why they need to be creative, but there is a big gap in understanding the how.