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.
Becoming the person you need to be…
Becoming the person you need to be... is an act of love #MakingPotentialPossible Approaching a decade ago, Hugh McLeod completed a commission (the picture above) for me. The nature of the commission involved a "creative constraint", where I could tell him a little...
Becoming the person you need to be…
Becoming the person you need to be is an act of love. I instinctively loved it right away and it has hung in pride of…
Nothing happens until somebody feels something
My favourite business artist is Hugh McLeod, @hughcards on Twitter. Love this one. Change comes from feelings, not rationality. Feelings connect us to why we would choose to change. "When you get clear on the WHY, the HOW is easy" I see organisational change so often...
Patience – Don’t swing at every pitch
This is the look of a batter striking out swinging. This is a picture from the book, "The Science of Hitting" by Ted Williams, where Ted broke the strike zone into 77 baseball-sized circles, colour-coding each one based on where he had the best chance to hit the ball....
Kilkenomics 2018 – will anyone challenge traditional economics?
"In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine" These words are from Benjamin Graham, author of "The Intelligent Investor", who I referenced just the other day in "Patience, Venture Capital, Buffett and Kipling" The...
Seth Godin, Stet – Bravery to Let It Stand
Seth Godin inspired me to commit to writing daily over a year ago, something he has done for nearly two decades. His posts are without images, vary from a few words to much lengthier pieces, some with many links to the work of others, some with none. Recently he...
Patience, Venture Capital, Buffett and Kipling
Two weeks or so ago I tweeted this as I saw people look at the stock market drop precipitously. “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”~Benjamin Graham. I'm sure Mr Buffett is unconcerned with the market drop....
Mindset, Youth Sports, Leadership
Winter is definitely here in London, and this Caymanian happily skipped his msot recent Sunday morning cycle when it was pouring with rain and 6c as I woke up. As an island boy, also happy for newspaper delivery, so no actual need to leave the cosy comfort of indoors....
Being comfortable with solitude
Quite the view, isn't it? I recently spent a week back in Cayman, where I had upwards of thirty meetings, talking with well over sixty people, including leading a four-hour session for a team of twenty-two. I worked out that in all that time I had less than two hours...
Writing I Love: the longest writing. can be one line
At a sea swim in 2014, aged 16, my son Iain.. or, as I called him after this, "The Answer".. "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?" "42" ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I often share on this site under the theme "Writing I...
From Pooh to Cantona
This week I brought you wisdom for Leadership from the sagest of sage bears (apologies to Paddington, who comes a close second), Winnie the Pooh. Today, I bring you the legend that is Eric Cantona, who I also wrote about...
How Self-Aware are you?
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change" ~ Suki Laniado Smith "Leaders who focus on building both internal and external self-awareness...can learn to see themselves more clearly — and reap the many rewards that increased self-knowledge delivers" ~ Dr Tasha Eurich,...
Today is my favourite day – Pooh Wisdom
Again and again, I share learnings from leaders, writers, artists, often around themes core to leadership such as presence. Today some Wisdom from the sagest bear of sage bears, Winnie the Pooh. Not for the first time, this is a post inspired by Georgie Loxton. With...
Changing and challenging perspectives
The view from my friend and host's loft in Brooklyn a few hours ago, just after sunrise on a cold and crisp 4c / 39f degree morning. The inspiring view has me musing today on the power of changing and challenging your perspective. I just spent a week in Cayman and...