Bring your toolkit with you, but be ready to use any of your tools or none. Choose to listen for Context before deciding on what…
Context
In praise of coffee meetings
View coffee meetings differently by being more intentional with your own time.
Taking a few days for Total Relaxation
Giving meaning to Total Relaxation, my three focal areas are: Presence, Slow, and Best.
Context is King
First, thank you to Sketchplanations for their latest visual: "Context is King", so concise, so clear. Last week I started working with a new C-Suite client. As I outlined to them, one of the first things to establish in our relationship is the Context for it, what,...
What is the Context for this meeting?
I am sure many of us have attended a board/leadership meeting and wondered what the context for the meeting is. Yes, it can have an agenda, even a detailed one, with pre-reading even, but what is the meeting for? What is the Context for this meeting? Is it purely...
Cayman and Connecting
So, I'm coming home to Cayman once again for the week of December 9th. CONNECTING is my Context for this trip (see "Setting your Personal Context"). I'll be connecting with my sons and with friends, and with clients for various projects and meetings. Cayman is and...
Ed Percival and his Cayman legacy
The late, great Ed Percival This week in Cayman I find myself musing on Perspectives, on Legacy, on Context, all as I am here with my own Context this week of CONNECTION. After two meetings early in the week with a current client and a past client, I find myself...
Context creates clarity and focus
This week I had a half-day meeting with a client leadership team in Cayman. With a lot happening for them, they were feeling a little "scattered". After talking through a download of much of that in some detail, we elevated the conversation and arrived at a Context...
Climate Crisis. Reduce, Rebel, Now.
Great Thunberg outside the Swedish Parliament starting her school strike, September 2018 Crisis One year ago this week Greta Thunberg sat, alone, outside the Swedish parliament, to begin her Climate Crisis strike. One year later, literally millions joined her across...
Business Strategy Coaching – a simple secret
What if I could give you a secret to elevating your business strategy that takes less time, costs less, whilst at the same time engaging and energising your top people? The secret starts with believing that the answers to elevating your strategy already sit within...
Without Context, Data is simply Noise
Data = Noise Data + Context = Information Experimentation + Error = Experience Information + Experience = Knowledge Knowledge + Humility = Wisdom Recently Fergus Connolly posted this on Twitter. I love following learnings on elite performance in sport and Fergus is an...
Clarity
Take a look at the right forearm of this swimmer. One word, written in marker pen: CLARITY This photo popped up this week as a Facebook memory for me from several years ago when this particular swimmer was at an international meet looking to make a time that would...
Be Curious
Being curious in everything you do can open you to new people and experiences. So this week I flew across 7 time zones to a city I'd never visited before. I had the next morning free, so decided to walk around the city, taking this photo on my way. I chose to adopt a...
Context, your personal “one-word theme”
My first post of the year was "What is your one-word theme for 2019?" Since I wrote that, several people have told me they will use that to support them in landing on their own theme for 2019. With that in mind, I felt to share some related thoughts from a prior post...
Ma – thinking about the space between
Ma – thinking about the space between. Thanks to @alansmlxl for his thoughts on Ma, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughn and @nilerodgers
Context and choosing your team
Am working on building a tribe to work on a brave and different project that looks at business and leadership through the lens of beauty. Thanks to Susan Aktemel for posting this on Twitter the other day. I saw Susan speak at the Entrepreneurial Summit at Gleneagles...
How clean are your communications?
image from a SlideShare deck from OneFish TwoFish called "How to communicate values without telling people to 'live the values' " So, yesterday I wrote: "Be rid of Brilliant Jerks". I didn't say "Fire your Brilliant Jerks". So, how can you be rid of brilliant jerks...
A Trust Story – Netflix – Context, not Control
In 2009, Netflix published the now famous "Culture Deck", 120 slides, a manifesto for the revolutionary culture created at Netflix. Sheryl Sandberg famously referred to this deck as "the most important document ever to come out of the valley". It is still available...
New Year – Your “Why” comes before setting goals
Learn the story of the greek fisherman and then consider your WHY for 2018.
Why humans will always stay ahead of AI
I feel positive that humans will keep ahead of artificial intelligence (AI). The need for human compassion will always be there. "May you live in interesting times" A little research attributes this to Sir Austen Chamberlain in 1936, soon before his brother was...
Story time. The hat that caused chaos
photo : Cayman Compass Chaos? A hat? Yes, a hat. Not even a hat, a latex swim cap. Trouble, you say, what do you mean trouble? Chaos! International incident! (well, nearly 🙂 ) Pull up a chair, I'm going to share a story in writing I've told many times. Perhaps it has...