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.
How much information? Enough.
I've written about "Enough-ism" before in the context of having enough on a personal level, though even in that post I then veered into thoughts on leadership and communications. Today though, I'm thinking about "enough" in the context of being an expert brought in to...
How much information? Enough.
I’m thinking about “enough” in the context of being an expert brought in to help an organisation lead change in a complex environment.
Time for new metrics for leadership
Microsoft just became the most valuable company in the world. This made big headlines, though very few people know the name of their CEO and few of the articles truly got into why his radically different style of humble leadership has been at the heart of that...
A response to “Listening for Energy”
Today a Guest post reposted from his site, by my friend, the very sage Bruce Peters, in response to my recent post "Listening for Energy". From Bruce Peters: I've been derailed from writing for some time. It’s so much easier for me to write and, indeed, speak in the...
Being More
As I write this, today I was working with a CEO around where they plan to take their business in 2019. They have a big and bold transformative vision, and today it felt a little, well, too much for them to get from where they are to where they wish to go. I put to...
Concise wisdom and what we see in others
My definition of wisdom: "Wisdom is something concise that, once you hear it, you feel you always knew it" Today wisdom from Muhammad Ali, Alan Moore, and Seth Godin. In August 2018 I wrote: "Can Business be Beautiful and Profitable?" at a time when Alan Moore and I...
Beautiful Leadership – Sacha Romanovitch
This is the latest in a sequence of posts on #BeautifulLeadership that all came from tweets and other news items I saw on the same day, November 29th. In the first post, "From Now On", I noted that "at least four wonderful examples of Beautiful Leadership found their...
Beautiful Leadership – Steph Curry empowering girls
Steph Curry with his daughter, Riley, on the way to another NBA Championship in 2018 Steph Curry is an NBA star. Steph Curry is a Father. Steph Curry just stepped up, with a highly link to the #HeForShe leader, Emma Watson. A great example of #BeautifulLeadership...
Beautiful Leadership – Patagonia’s Righteous Flywheel
Yesterday I wrote the first in a sequence of posts on Beautiful Leadership, noting: "On one day alone last week, at least four wonderful examples of Beautiful Leadership found their way to me": an NBA star and father empowering young women by walking the talk. a brave...
Beautiful Leadership – From Now On
In the time I've been posting daily on this site, from time to time recurring themes have come to me, hence you can use the search option and find about forty once weekly posts of "Movies with Meaning", and also a theme with many posts called "Writing I Love". Now...
Purpose, your inner rocket fuel
This week I left home one day at 1pm for a truly intense day and a half of client work, yet when I got home late the next evening I felt great at all levels. The secret? Yes, I make sure I look after myself physically (sleep, exercise, nutrition etc), I am a...
Planting trees you will never see
Interior of Sagrada Familia I love cathedrals and other major centres of worship, such as Sagrada Familia, Hagia Sophia, Durham Cathedral and many others. A key aspect of such buildings is that almost all of those who were part of their construction knew that they...
Let go of your cruft
Let go of your cruft. Step one, what is cruft? Step two, identify yours. Step three, choose to let go of it so you can…
Slow-motion multitasking
I have designed my life to allow "intellectual crop rotation" and "slow-motion multitasking". The Gif above is the famous slow-motion walking scene that opens Reservoir Dogs. To me, this is the single most memorable and seminal moment in a classic movie. The...