My Library
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.
Atmospherics after Dark
Atmospherics after dark Noise and voices from the past Across the dial from Moscow to Cologne: Interference in the night Thousand miles on either side Stations fading into the unknown: So throw off your coat Butter some toast And put the coffee on; Lie down on the bed...
Atmospherics after Dark
Forty years ago, Tom Robinson co-wrote the tune “Listen to the Radio (Atmospherics after dark)” with Peter Gabriel.
Doing what is right – Pret
Ken Blanchard has a quote: "catch someone doing something right". I believe in business as a force for good, and in the righteous flywheel of purpose-lead businesses following the new triple bottom line and so creating profit for impact. I've started writing posts...
Diversity + Collaboration = Innovation
Love this image from a recent post by Gaping Void. Diversity of thought is a topic I am highly passionate about. One of my core values is "Fair" and the conscious and unconscious biases in our world, ranging from race to gender to sexual orientation to religion to...
Bruce Peters – Wise advice – on giving no advice
Recently, spurred by my friend Bruce Peters, I wrote: "Give no advice". Bruce then wrote a follow-up and I feel to share his wisdom, reproduced below. Some advice bears repeating and accentuating (and yes, I get the irony!). From Bruce Peters: Re: "No Advice" Post...
Notre Dame and Beautiful Leadership
On April 15th 2019 Notre Dame de Paris, our lady of Paris, burned and the world mourned one of the great man-made structures of human history. Within hours, though, #BeautifulLeadership was shown from business leaders and the French President. Business as a force for...
WeWork and remembering lessons of the past
Yesterday I wrote: "Your business must make a profit", finishing that article with a warning about WeWork. Today, more on that, starting with remembering the lessons of the past and then some alarm bells I am now hearing ring loudly in my ears about WeWork. I remember...
Your business must make a profit
Today a post "Profit for Impact", about the new triple bottom line and showing the following linear formula as iterative, a "righteous flywheel". Purpose + People + Planet = Profit Today I want to emphasise that your business must make a profit. Yes, I may sometimes...
Profit for Impact
In January I wrote: "Purpose, People, Planet. The new triple bottom line." That article puts forward that it is time for a new triple bottom line, one that creates: "a “Righteous Flywheel”, where the unerring focus on Purpose+People+Planet as drivers allows the...
The biggest hidden asset in your business
Prior to my focus over the last decade on leadership and so people, I spent nearly twenty years focussed on numbers and building value in businesses. A key part of that is assessing the hidden assets in a business, the stuff that isn't always apparent in the financial...
Foundations: Financial Literacy
This is Dun Carloway, a bronze age fort thought to be built in the first century AD. It is on the Isle of Lewis, where I spent most of my vacations as a child. Often I played and ran around this structure, then many years later my children did the same. While the...
Certain in Uncertainty
In the world of business we live in, so often we are rewarded for certainty, yet sometimes being uncertain and knowing and stating that this is where we are, that can also be of value to our process and our business. We can be: Certain in Uncertainty. Today a coaching...
Ethics and Reputation Management. Hmm.
This week I wrote a short post called "Reputation Hygiene". It was about simple things like being on time for meetings. Now, after reading this, in a recent conversation someone made an off the cuff remark about having read my post and that it had them thinking about...
What if we aim too low?
What if we aim too low? Today three thoughts on that : Seth Godin on the Icarus Deception My own thoughts on what clients ask for most often from me Marianne Williamson and my favourite quote So, thoughts around "what if we aim too low?" Seth Godin and the Icarus...