Gulliver's Footprints

Two fictional characters - Gulliver (created by Jonathan Swift) and Hari Seldon (by Isaac Asimov') wield great influence.

After each successive ship-wreck, Gulliver lands in fantastic lands - of Giants, then Lilliputs, then talking horses, Yahoos etc. Worlds filled with new and different assumptions, contexts, structures and meaning to life.

Hari Seldon, as a 'PsychoHistorian', studies patterns of human behaviour; and predicts future probabilities.

Gulliver drives curiosity and passion for new experiences/ new 'populations'; while Seldon helps to structure learnings into meaningful and predictive insights of those populations.

In my career as a Manager, these two fictional characters have been my constant companions.

They travelled with me to nearly 100 countries (living for several years in 7 of them) and helped gain insights about peoples, cultures, belief systems, businesses, marketing, organisations, teams...