I found it valuable to turn my attention to what I am focussed on as themes right now, so sharing that question for you. What…
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Want great long term returns? Invest in being Diverse by Design
Truly embracing and being a diverse organisation at all levels of your business is an investment in being anti-fragile.
Sunday movie fan post – your favourite film trilogy?
A few thoughts on what I feel is one of the top three film trilogies, the others being Star Wars and The Godfather.
Are you willing to accept lower profits to be anti-fragile?
Resilience is to have minimal impact at times of “disorder”, whereas an anti-fragile organisation actively benefits from times of disorder.
A reminder to pause
I have to shuffle everything back, some of which will be a hassle and additional cost, not to mention time to me and the other…
Elite Mindset – Curiosity
One key attribute I see is an innate and insatiable curiosity. If you search this site for the term “curiosity”, you will find pages of…
Hold your thoughts lightly
When challenging events occur, how do we respond? Do we allow our thoughts to take over, to spin us into anxiety, overwhelm, even paralysis of…
Bring awareness to five management skills
A simple model to bring awareness to five management skills that we use instinctively, but in understanding these distinctly we can choose which to use.
Practicing Equanimity
Equanimity and our ability to maintain it can be built upon layer by layer, enabling us to remain calm in the face of any storms…
Being comfortable with not knowing
What if you could simply “be comfortable with not knowing” the solutions/answers/what to do? What would then be possible?
A coaching paradox
The coaching paradox is that the very things that hold us back are the reasons we need a coach in the first place.
Share your stories
Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up. Let us also share our stories of falling, not only our stories of…
The easiest way to gain advantage in business
Positive asymmetry is another way to talk about creating an environment where you can “gain advantage”, by creating a situation where you have much more…
Making sense of yourself with eight questions
What are some of the important questions that you are making sense of nowadays?
Calling Cayman Leaders
A call to Cayman Leaders to contact me to discuss where you are and whether it would be good timing and fit for us to…
There are weeks when decades happen
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Are you open to having your ideas challenged?
In business we see leaders who are NOT accepting of being challenged. Leaders must first show they are open and humble in accepting this.
Tools to help you move slowly and consciously
Find certain things you can do slowly and consciously in your day that can help you focus more on whatever comes directly after that.
Short Speeches take longer
Love this and the associated blog from Sketchplanations Around six months ago I started working with a client on their long term strategy. The first draft they shared with me was around sixty pages long and the core points were very much buried within several sections...
Hibernating and also getting ready for Spring activity
This year things are largely opened up, yet I have feel as though I am hibernating.
We all need more Gorilla drumming in our lives
A story of how a Gorilla, drums, music and a ninety-second TV ad beautifully executed the brief of: “Eating Cadbury’s chocolate makes you feel good.”
Why do we retire?
Let us look at why we retire, why sometimes we can’t and then the question “why retire?”, for those who have the choice to continue…
The importance of marking occasions
This evening a client is taking me out for dinner to celebrate. I worked with them and their business extensively for around eighteen months up until the end of last year and, as we finished that engagement, they told me they wanted to take me out for dinner in the...
Did you have fun?
Don’t force your kids into sports. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep…
I don’t understand
Have you ever been presenting to a group and asked “does everyone understand?” and got a sea of blank faces?
Do you love Mondays?
Though Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats had their biggest hit with “I Don’t Like Mondays”, I don’t agree.
Turning Lemons into Lemonade
I wanted to head out on Sunday, so how to take these challenges and turn them into opportunities? How to turn “lemons into lemonade”?
Music as part of our emotional toolbox
Music should provide us with “an emotional toolbox” to which we can turn at different moments of our lives.
Triangulate insights but don’t get in a triangle
I can “triangulate” to see insights that go beyond any individual or individual’s context or situation and so further support the entire organisation.
Over-communicate your message
Build a cohesive leadership team, create and over-communicate organisational clarity. Reinforce Organisational Clarity though Human Systems.
Time blindness and the power of presence
Time blindness and the power of presence: a look at how we can learn from neurodiverse prioritisation based on interest rather than importance.
Can you imagine a Blues Club with only white musicians?
A Blues Club with only white musicians is going to be limited in the musical variety and influences they bring to the audience.
In defence of non-interactive media
Whether a walk in nature, reading a book, watching a movie or any other of the wide variety of non-interactive media that are out there.
What a difference a day can make
I nearly used an image of my Wordle effort from today as a follow on from yesterday's post "I find being patient hard sometimes", where I shared my poor effort as an example of how I was struggling that day. Any slightly astute reader (and all my regular readers are...
I find being patient hard sometimes
I simply need to be patient. As the saying goes, “everything will be ok in the end, if it is not ok, it’s not the…
Going beyond genius by making it simple
I love to share what I learn and hope this story can help you unlock your own genius then take it up to the top…