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.
Easing back in to things
My last daily post was on September 21st, then I took a relaxed trip to France to visit family and to simply chill. Today I'm back home and easing back into things gently. A simple thought today from Rick Rubin : If I had an hour to find a solution I’d spend the...
Easing back in to things
I took a relaxed trip to France to visit family and to simply chill. Today I’m back home and easing back into things gently.
Simple things done well
Simple things done well beats sophisticated mediocrity. Skoda Octavia - "it does what it says on the tin" Recently, for the first time in several years, I once again became a car owner. Much though I love high performance and sporting cars, this time I was more...
The Divided Brain
Image from the trailer from the film of The Divided Brain. This weekend the London area is hot, way too hot to use my brain, so I postponed all Friday work to Monday (when it will be moderately cooler!). For now, sharing with you an RSA Animate video with some core...
The gift in seeing what you don’t see
O wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!from "To a Louse" by Robert Burns The power of seeing ourselves objectively is a topic I return to again and again from multiple angles. Today reflecting on two experiences yesterday and on the gift of...
What comes After What Comes Next?
What comes after what comes next? Antifragile by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, giving a way to thrive in a world of "The Black Swan", a book I reference in my blog early on in the pandemic, March 8th 2020, called "Act Now" As readers may know, in addition to daily blogs, I...
Why don’t our leaders take responsibility?
No answers as to why so many leaders fail to take responsibility, but plenty of reasons for all of us to choose to take actions…
Firing on only two cylinders
sPanoz LMP-1 Roadster, powered by a huge 8 cylinder engine When we "fire on all cylinders" it is a metaphor for everything going smoothly and at full capacity and effort. When we are "not firing on all cylinders", then the assumption is that we are under-performing...
There is no business
There is no business. There is nothing to touch, or pick up or to take a selfie with; there is nothing that exists separately that has an opinion or a life of its own. There is just us and the time we spend with each other, thinking about each other, helping each...
Your MBTI Career Guide
As with all personality assessments, I take MBTI with a pinch of salt, although the part I do most like as an awareness piece is the spectrum we all fall on from Introvert to Extrovert. If you know your own MBTI, then what do you think of the career guide above? In...
August, Transitions, What Comes Next
August is a "slow" month, yet this unique year is one of Transitions, so it is key to balance rest in August with also focussing during this quiet period on the valuable work of considering What Comes Next. August Today we enter August, in much of the Northern...
Look at a longer timeframe to give a new perspective
Look at a longer timeframe to give a new perspective. GBP USD rate for the last 50 years So, just two days ago I wrote: "Stop waiting for the perfect moment", noting that I had a large sum of money from the sale of a house (in USD) to move to buy a house in the UK (in...
Look at a longer timeframe to give a new perspective
Look at a longer timeframe to give a new perspective. GBP USD rate for the last 50 years So, just two days ago I wrote: "Stop waiting for the perfect moment", noting that I had a large sum of money from the sale of a house (in USD) to move to buy a house in the UK (in...
We urgently need a sense of a longer now
Hooked on short term thinking, we urgently need a sense of a longer nowRoman Krznaric , author of The Good Ancestor First, thank you to David McWilliams for his interview of Roman Krznaric on his latest weekly podcast, one that has been a regular companion to me on...