This New Year, how about choosing your own Hero’s Journey?
Month: December 2017
Emotional Equations – What makes a Story?
In your story, what are your emotional desires, what is at stake?
Smashing Paradigms – Stop the “Busyness”
Where is the bar?
Emotional Equations – Chip Conley
Please share the Emotional Equation that means the most to you. Inspired by @chipconley
Movies with Meaning – Christmas and Alan Rickman Edition
This week a twist, three powerful commencement speeches to share
Writing I love – Silence in the Age of Noise
Musing on silence. Do find time to rest and recharge and find silence at this time of year
Father Christmas asks – What’s your Centre?
What’s your centre? #MakingPotentialPossible
A Trust Story – Pindrop
Trust your clients if you want them to trust you. Here is Pindrop’s story
Are you Magnificent, or Quietly Fabulous ?
So today one of the dearest (and magnificent!) people in the world to me sent me this picture, knowing I am struggling a little with a winter cold. A humorous reference to remind me that some days it is ok to slow down and practice self-care. It got me thinking about...
Smashing Paradigms – Mark Beaumont
Where is the bar ?
Humble Leadership and the Chaos of Creating
Recently I wrote about the power of humility in leadership, how the role of a leader is to be "Keeper of the Vision" then simply create a space for those in the business to pose puzzles and ask questions, then to solve the puzzles and answer the questions. In that...
Movies with Meaning – with a difference
This week a twist, three powerful commencement speeches to share
Books I Love – The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
The future is Teal. How self-management, wholeness, evolutionary purpose transform leadership
Humble Leadership and Trust
This week I met with a top executive coach who, in an earlier phase of life, was a famous sporting leader. In that phase of life, one example of their leadership created a famous day that will live on for many years. That moment was created by an example of leadership...
What makes Scots different ?
Would you trust a Scot?
Flow – Michael Jordan and Jason Silva
In 1992, Michael Jordan, not renowned as a long distance shooter, hit an amazing six 3 point shots in the first half of an NBA Finals game, then this famous photo caught him shrugging to his bench as if to say "don't ask me what is happening" In 2004,...
Smashing Paradigms – Growth Mindset and Pole Vaulting
{latest in a developing series on Smashing Paradigms} For my story-telling explanation of the definition of a Paradigm, see "What is a Paradigm". One way of defining a paradigm is "an unconsciously held belief that limits us from fresh thinking" or "we've always done...
InnSaei – to see from the Inside Out
"We have to be really ready to fail, the failure... to be part of the journey" "To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one" “in order to create something new human beings need to go into the unknown” Marina Abramovic, interviewed in the documentary...
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This week’s Movies with Meaning, please reply to share yours and may include next week
Books I Love – Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux
The future is Teal. How self-management, wholeness, evolutionary purpose transform leadership
Leadership and Resilience
Give abundantly, and also set boundaries and be resilient. Find the balance
If it looks like a tulip..
It it looks like a tulip… marking this date in the Bitcoin bubble
This might work – flying close to the sun
Icarus Deception, still one of the most impactful books to me. How high will you fly ?
Smashing Paradigms – Adam Grant and Dan Pink
{latest in a developing series on Smashing Paradigms} Recently I used the "four monkeys" story to explain what a Paradigm is, then the next day used an example of "we've always done it this way" to look at why 55 million people commute (mostly) each year to Canary...
How do we know what we know? Posing Puzzles
How do we know what we know, and how do we know we know what we know?
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What movies have meaning for you? Featuring 3 films: Interstellar, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Horton Hears a Who.
Books I Love – Give and Take by Adam Grant
Are you a giver, matcher or taker? What happens if you give abundantly?
Favourite quote – Our deepest fear
Yesterday I wrote about flipping procrastination and fear into growth. This reminded me of probably my favourite quote of all time. Given how many quotes I love, the fact that this one stands above all others says a lot to and about me. "Our deepest fear is not that...
Flip procrastination and fear to growth
Ok, ok, so I prefer "Do, or do not, there is no try". However, though I aspire to be Yoda-like, sometimes my humanity takes the form of procrastination. I don't write every day for the daily posts here, I post every day. Big difference. I reserve time for...
Seth Godin repost: Two kinds of practice
Failure is essential for success
Loss of Control and Growth
What is possible for you if you choose “loss of control” ?