Insights
People are my library, my writing inspired by what I learn: ideas, inspiration, wisdom, and sometimes some eclectic whimsy for good measure, all centred around #OpenLeadership. At the heart of all of this is that I write to share learnings and to discover my thoughts. Over the years i have written (mostly) daily, over 2000 posts and 1,000,000 words (that last part blows my mind, tbh!). Enjoy browsing.
Being Still
As I commonly do, am writing this daily post the day before it goes out at 8 am U.K. time, so here I am on a Sunday afternoon. Sometimes I am full of inspiration and ideas, sometimes less so. Today is a "less so" day, perhaps as I was out on my bike for 4.5 hours this...
Being Still
Today is a “less so” day, perhaps as I was out on my bike for 4.5 hours this morning with my riding buddy the “Flying…
Are you willing to accept lower profits to be anti-fragile?
Resilience is to have minimal impact at times of “disorder”, whereas an anti-fragile organisation actively benefits from times of disorder.
A reminder to pause
I have to shuffle everything back, some of which will be a hassle and additional cost, not to mention time to me and the other…
Elite Mindset – Curiosity
One key attribute I see is an innate and insatiable curiosity. If you search this site for the term “curiosity”, you will find pages of…
Hold your thoughts lightly
When challenging events occur, how do we respond? Do we allow our thoughts to take over, to spin us into anxiety, overwhelm, even paralysis of…
Bring awareness to five management skills
A simple model to bring awareness to five management skills that we use instinctively, but in understanding these distinctly we can choose which to use.
Practicing Equanimity
Equanimity and our ability to maintain it can be built upon layer by layer, enabling us to remain calm in the face of any storms…
Slow day
Today I’m writing this at about 4pm rather than posting at 8am. Speaks to taking a “slow day”, allowing for a day where nothing much…
Being comfortable with not knowing
What if you could simply “be comfortable with not knowing” the solutions/answers/what to do? What would then be possible?
A coaching paradox
The coaching paradox is that the very things that hold us back are the reasons we need a coach in the first place.
Share your stories
Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Let us also share our stories of falling, not only our stories of…
The easiest way to gain advantage in business
Positive asymmetry is another way to talk about creating an environment where you can “gain advantage”, by creating a situation where you have much more…
Making sense of yourself with eight questions
What are some of the important questions that you are making sense of nowadays?