Beautiful Leadership

This morning I am travelling to meet a client, which means trains and tubes (London Underground), as well as walking into and around cafes and restaurants. Wearing masks has dropped right away in the UK. It seems that people follow social norms, so as more people...

My awesome friend Kay Scorah, see her appearance on WhatComesNextLive here This is my friend Kay Scorah, who sometimes humorously calls herself "the Witch of Noticing". She is a wise woman indeed, as well as a force of !@$!@ nature and one of my absolute favourite...

One area of beauty we can understand beyond rationality being music. Einstein often talked about such things. Yesterday I wrote about Einstein's five levels of cognitive prowess, in ascending order: SmartIntelligentBrilliantGeniusSimple Today I put it to you that...

When it feels hard to listen to alternative views, focus on listening and understanding. Thanks to Tom Goodwin for the clip from this blog from Morgan Hausel "The willingness to believe crazy things increases when it feels like the world is dangerous and falling...

Pawprint offers this awareness, as well as suggestions to reduce our individual impact. My "Pawprint". Get yours at https://www.pawprint.eco/ Up until around 2017, I'd fly well over 100,000 miles per year, getting on well over 50 aircraft, with much of that being long...

I want to work with companies that have Eulogy Virtues, that will truly be remembered and missed, rather than bland. What will you be remembered for? "Blands", not Brands This week two clients messaged me, both thank me for the difference I had made for them...

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”~ Albert Camus This is...

I sense that many of us feel the need for distractions from the winter of Covid. Regular readers will know I focus on presence and, linked to that, often I look at beauty. One moment of beauty came at the weekend, when I went outside for a while and saw the wondrous...

Kokoro - The intersection of heart, mind, & spirit that's a person’s essence, soul, or center. Instead of being treated separately, they are one. In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moan;Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on...

Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. - Henry James I write this for the last day of 2020. In the UK, I forecast that we will be mostly, if not fully locked down now for the next three...

“I want to teach because I love watching humans unfold their wings”. Wow, Carlos Santana, what a purpose you have.

Look after me next time. Bacon roll from OnARoll Yesterday I took some time out during the day to drive to a Homebase store to "click and collect" something for my new house. As I was about to leave, about 3pm, I saw a food truck in the car park. Smart, I thought,...

Celebrating the positive leadership of Dani Coleman, Director, Hazard Management Cayman Islands. Dani Coleman, Director, Hazard Management Cayman Islands What is the secret to being one of the leaders of a 70+ person, cross-agency National Emergency Operations Centre...

Attention /əˈtɛnʃ(ə)n/ the appropriate amount of mental energy to solve a particular taskStephen Hick's definition of attention In the most recent latest WhatComesNextLive conversation, it was a pleasure to talk with Stephen Hicks. As a way of introducing his work and...

Justice is about fairness. Even in this highly polarised world we live in (particularly around politics), I seek to, as Stephen Covey would say: "listen to understand". However, when something goes against my values, it breaches my boundaries and that means taking a...