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.
Listener in Residence
Thoughts on being a listener in residence. For around ten years (until 2004, which seems more recent than that!), Kelsey Grammer played Dr Frasier Crane on the show "Frasier", as a radio psychiatrist who welcomed each radio caller with the phrase "I'm listening". I am...
Listener in Residence
My main reason is to stimulate ideas and energy in others so that I can listen to them once they get going in expressing themselves. Beyond…
InnSaei – to see from the Inside Out
"We have to be really ready to fail, the failure... to be part of the journey" "To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one" “in order to create something new human beings need to go into the unknown” Marina Abramovic, interviewed in the documentary...
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This week’s Movies with Meaning, please reply to share yours and may include next week
Books I Love – Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux
The future is Teal. How self-management, wholeness, evolutionary purpose transform leadership
Leadership and Resilience
Give abundantly, and also set boundaries and be resilient. Find the balance
If it looks like a tulip..
It it looks like a tulip… marking this date in the Bitcoin bubble
This might work – flying close to the sun
Icarus Deception, still one of the most impactful books to me. How high will you fly ?
Smashing Paradigms – Adam Grant and Dan Pink
{latest in a developing series on Smashing Paradigms} Recently I used the "four monkeys" story to explain what a Paradigm is, then the next day used an example of "we've always done it this way" to look at why 55 million people commute (mostly) each year to Canary...
How do we know what we know? Posing Puzzles
How do we know what we know, and how do we know we know what we know?
Movies with meaning 3
What movies have meaning for you? Featuring 3 films: Interstellar, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Horton Hears a Who.
Books I Love – Give and Take by Adam Grant
Are you a giver, matcher or taker? What happens if you give abundantly?
Favourite quote – Our deepest fear
Yesterday I wrote about flipping procrastination and fear into growth. This reminded me of probably my favourite quote of all time. Given how many quotes I love, the fact that this one stands above all others says a lot to and about me. "Our deepest fear is not that...
Flip procrastination and fear to growth
Ok, ok, so I prefer "Do, or do not, there is no try". However, though I aspire to be Yoda-like, sometimes my humanity takes the form of procrastination. I don't write every day for the daily posts here, I post every day. Big difference. I reserve time for...