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.
Excelling Invisibly
A thought for leaders then a current story that has me musing on what we choose to pay attention to. Leadership is about people, end of story Almost all businesses these days are predominantly about people and leaders get the importance of recognising those who...
Excelling Invisibly
The more time you can spend in the business and with your people, the more acknowledgement and encouragement you give, the more they will all…
Kindness as Leadership
Kindness as Leadership. Learning from Mr Rogers
Be nice
Be nice. Concise wisdom from @JeffDSachs #BeMoreYou
Do work that you’re proud of
"Do work that you're proud of - work that matters for people who care. It's all about connection, empathy and making a difference." ~ Seth Godin Seth Godin inspired me to post daily. With well over 7,000 daily posts already he has moved way beyond the "marketing guru"...
Diversity of Thought – how much is too much?
This weekend the annual Kilkenomics economics and comedy festival in the gorgeous tiny city of Kilkenny. I write this on a Sunday morning musing on diversity of thought and "how much is too much?". We learned that Andy Haldane (Chief Economist of the Bank of England)...
Conscious mental exercise
Conscious mental exercise. Stories around bringing consciousness to stretch and grow our mind in everyday situations.
Not my circus, not my monkey
Not my circus, not my monkey. A mantra to avoid the Drama Triangle
Making a positive impact
Making a positive impact and (gasp) talking to people and making eye contact in London!
There I stood on the burning deck
There I stood on the burning deck. Lessons on the power of storytelling for leaders from Bob Keiller and the late Ed Percival.
Beautiful Leadership
Alan Moore of Beautiful Business is a visionary of deep thought, care, intent and passion who is often way ahead of others in his ideas and direction. I have the great privilege of being at the beginning of supporting him as the "Keeper of the Vision", a vision of a...
Facing the blank page
Monday morning. My first calls and meetings start in an hour and will continue until late, so I sit here with one task at hand, to write the daily post to go out tomorrow morning. Normally that feels great, except today, there is a problem. I have no idea what to...
All work and no play…
(c) Florian Radarte "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" also goes along with "a change is as good as a rest" I wrote some time ago in "Stop the “Busyness”": "Put simply, for leaders, less is more. Simple, yes? But how many of you just skipped over this and...
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow
"And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow" The last line of "On Marriage" in "The Prophet" I first heard parts of this masterpiece spoken at the funeral of a friend taken by cancer. I was deeply moved, so later asked the reader who wrote it,...