There is real value in facilitating a conversation sharing concerns then ideas as to what each person sees in their own crystal ball.
OpenLeadership
Are you ready to embrace leading change around the S in ESG?
The latest issue of the RSA Journal includes a lead article by Gillian Tett entitled “Making a Good Impression – how cultural shifts are driving…
Musing on the power of questions
I was reminded in new ways of the power of questions that are asked without then immediately seeking to answer them by being comfortable.
Nothing to say today
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. Mark Twain. That’s all folks. See you tomorrow.
Humans are Predictably Irrational
Over the years I have learned enough about the human condition (and myself!) to know that we humans are, as Dan Ariely puts it in…
Feeling guilty about not writing
I’m also feeling guilty about that, feeling that I “should” be writing more about big ideas, but I am not sure I would have much…
Pausing time
Pausing time to reflect and refresh.
Uneventful and Quiet, Boringly Normal
As a theme, my daily posting over the last while has been, well, relatively uneventful and quiet and boringly normal, even.
What would the world have to look like to you?
When you see someone doing something that doesn’t make sense to you, ask yourself what the world would have to look like to you for…
Life carries on in the people I meet
“Life carries on in the people I meet, In everyone that’s out on the street.” – Peter Gabriel, I Grieve
A Quiet Sunday
With all that 2022 has brought me, the joy of a quiet Sunday feels sufficiently profound for me today. May you enjoy your Sunday, quiet…
Pausing out of respect
Pausing the daily blog today out of the utmost respect for an individual who devoted their entire life to being of service to an institution.
Wistfully missing the age of Business Cards
I have very rarely handed out business cards for at least a decade now. I miss this way to communicate the essence of what you…
When you can’t control the outcome
Don’t try to control the uncontrollable. I’m generally pretty zen in situations where I can’t control the outcome.
Never let schooling interfere with education
How focussed are you on learning and where do you seek to gain your education at your own stage of life and career?
How can I help?
I go into every conversation with someone new with the thought “how can I help?”. To me, a huge part of what life is about…
Thoughts from Ride 7 – Trust the Process
Trust the Process is a phrase I use as an anchor when working with clients on transformative work for themselves, and for their business.
Driving Cars because “we’ve always done it this way”
How many things do we do because they are how we have always done them – like driving cars around?
Sometimes it feels hard to slow down
I often remind clients in senior leadership positions that “the less you do the more valuable you are to your business.”
The increasing irrelevance of nation states
As global trends continue, we must ultimately consider the relevance of nation-states.
Is not experiencing fear or stress my superpower?
Living in the absence of fear, stress, and anxiety is very powerful and a superpower that many people do not possess.
What’s for you will not go by you
The translation of that Scots phrase is “what’s for you will not go by you” and I am reminded of this as I am currently…
Live life forwards
It is important to understand the past and its impact on the present, then let us live life forwards.
Giving experiences rather than gifts
Over time I have become less and less interested in material possessions and more and more focused on experiences.
It is what it is and Response-ability
I have, over the years, become more and more practiced about events I have no control over. In short, I can take “response-ability”.
Elite Lessons: Be running your own Inner Game
Choose your own inner game to run, particularly in environments where you are not being stretched in what you are doing.
Who am I?
This post is apropos nothing other than that I am musing on this topic, and perhaps in sharing this it may help you consider “who…
Instinct, buying a house and Think Feel Know
As to leadership and business learnings, “Think Feel Know” is one of the most powerful indicator tools I have ever worked with.
Patience in the Summer
The northern hemisphere is in the usual summer “slow” mode, particularly in England, where schools often don’t go back until September.
Don’t try to time the market
Focus on consistent investment over time, rather than timing the market, you will smooth out the ups and downs.
Make your CV or Resumé your Prospectus
Make your CV your Prospectus; make people want to invest in you. What are some of the potential features of a personal prospectus?
Are you prepared for mortgage rates of 10% or more?
Prepare for worse, hope for better. Run your numbers on various (much) higher mortgage rates and see what happens to your household budget.
What are you brilliant at ? Try using your Red Hat
The red hat represents feelings and instincts. When you’re engaged in this thinking, you can express your feelings without having to justify them logically.
Ride as long or as short as you feel, but ride.
The hot weather was set to break in the UK, so early in the morning I got on my bike in the light drizzle and…
Be willing to appear foolish
So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look foolish in the short term.
Kairos – all time is not the same
The Ancient Greeks talked of two types of time. Chronos, or quantitative time, and Kairos, qualitative time.