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.
What do you see?
Yesterday, as I finished my fortnightly Pilates session and was about to get on my bike to ride home, I stopped for a moment in the beautiful garden outside the studio and saw something quite remarkable. With a full day ahead of me after the session, I could easily...
What do you see?
What do you see? And what can you see as you go through life if you take time to pause, to be present, to look…
Live in the now to provide for the future
"Live in the now to provide for the future" Exquisite. I love distilled beauty in writing, and gosh how much I love anything that can relate to leadership and business. This hits the mark on all levels for me! People are my library, and today I am most thankful for...
Lessons from the analogue world – Slow Down
Taken after a photo shoot, looking over the Thames to Temple. London is such a city of both tradition and permanence as well as dynamism and growth. Yesterday I had a wonderful experience with a highly creative photographer, Simon Edwards, as we walked around London...
We are what we repeatedly do
In yesterday's post, I wrote around the phrase: How you do anything is how you do everything The post asked of each of us the question: "what do your actions say about your Leadership?", considering that everything we do is indicative of who we are, our values mirror...
What do your actions say about your Leadership?
Fergus Conolly is the author of "Game Changer" and someone I follow closely around his learnings on elite performance across multiple sports. He recently shared an article from The Observer about Marcelo Bielsa, a legendary coach now leading the once great Leeds...
Prepare, then throw away the script
Today a reflection of preparing in advance so that we can discard what we prepared. I then share similar learnings from an interview with the director and writer of the latest Mission Impossible movie. I love movies and recently watched this movie. It was terrific,...
What is your original idea today?
In my role as an experienced coach supporting leaders to reach their peak, I'm highly focussed on limiting beliefs, choice of words, and also where language is phrased negatively rather than positively. It is a little absurd then, that I have often used a certain...
Learning from The Beatles – “Mixing” your Leadership
In supporting leaders over many years, I love to distil to simplicity, to allow them to focus on their priorities, their message, their context. As Da Vinci said: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" At the same time, sometimes we need to consider more than...
Kintsukuroi – Leadership Lessons
Continuing a theme from this week's post "Beautiful words bring dimensions of meaning", today considering the Japanese art of Kintsukuroi and lessons that leaders can learn from it. So many entrenched organisational paradigms look to avoid breakdowns, mistakes, even...
Make your dent in the universe a crater
What is the dent you wish to make in the universe? How can you make that dent into a crater? My answer today? Surround yourselves with people, thoughts, ideas that stimulate you to live your own purpose and you'll make your dent a crater. Let me give you my own...
Beautiful words bring dimensions of meaning
At the heart of my writing is a passion to elevate Leadership, and so much of that comes from understanding of self and others. Words of such richness of meaning can also facilitate awareness and understanding of other areas, fields, dimensions. I frequently say “a...
Ignore the noise of Metrics – tune in to what truly matters
Seth Godin writes daily and has over 1,000,000 followers on his email list. I write daily and have around 1,000 email followers. Metrics. For many years a part of my work was engaged with digital marketing. So much of that was about building traffic to websites,...
The Power of Intention – “This is post 300”
This is post 300 Today is the 300th post on this site. With no plan in mind, last year I felt powerfully drawn to writing again after a long break. Not only this, I decided to commit to posting daily. I'll tell the story, then reflect on some unexpected serendipities...