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.
Make it crazy to choose anything else
Yes, two days of Rory Sutherland tips in a row. At Kilkenomics, Rory did both apologise in advance for saying he’d tell one or two stories that many would have heard him tell before, but also joked that not telling some of them would be like The Eagles not playing...
Make it crazy to choose anything else
What would we need to do to make it crazy to choose any alternative to going by train?
Curiosity + Openness = Serendipity
Yesterday I had a wonderful LunchClub conversation that ranged widely. As I listened, I realised that I could connect that person with numerous individuals from outside their existing networks with whom they could explore further on various topics. Earlier this week I...
My Carbon Footprint hypocrisy
How much focus do we each pay to our carbon footprint? I would say that I feel more of us are caring about this, and, since COP26 in Glasgow, paying specific attention to how many tonnes of CO2 we contribute each year. in addition, friends know me to be relatively...
Learning Balance
A personal and quite pensive post of lessons I learned around finding balance in life and work.
Elite Mindset – make time to then choose Intellect over Effort
I always recommend for leaders to take time to focus on the “M” in the formula above, to take time out from their busy schedule…
Elite Mindset – Be as curious as a Dog
Be as curious as a dog. To a dog every moment is confusing, every moment is like “I don’t know what is going on here,…
Elite Mindset – listen to your internal music
Their creative process is dominated by external noise as opposed to internal music. I love to listen and learn!
My kind of people
People who get excited about stars, moon and sunset are my kind of people. Think of a few things you have been present to in…
Value those who can think outside the box
You can practice, you can learn to think outside the box, to connect the dots in ways others would not have thought possible.
Are you getting enough of all seven types of rest?
The seven types of rest, then: Physical Rest, Mental Rest, Sensory Rest, Creative Rest, Emotional Rest, Social Rest, and Spiritual Rest.
Practice deep play
Winston Churchill, on the importance of what I would call deep play. He himself focussed on painting for this.
She turned the tables on me!
Yesterday my guest on this week’s #WhatComesNextLive was my friend Alex Barker, who turned the tables on me.
Elegant simplicity in engineering
The Victoria Line on the London Underground has hump-back stations which apparently saves energy and help the trains run faster. Elegant simplicity.