"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet" Robert Nesta Marley So tonight I was walking through London from one meeting to another, and as I saw these arches, this particular quote from the inestimable and incomparable Bob Marley came to mind. A cold and crisp...
As regular readers will know, I'm part of a community that is building to create and bring forth transformative leadership programmes under the theme of Beautiful Leadership, inspired by the writings and ideas of Alan Moore of Beautiful Business. This week a group of...
As I write today's post, I am up in Cambridgeshire once again working with a small group on further shaping the concept I wrote about as "Beautiful Leadership" Two linked elements that we have agreed are at the core of this shaping are a) that we are seeking to...
If you search the term "slow down" on this site, you will find at least thirty articles. In our high-paced world, often when I support leaders I am looking for them to slow down for, as you'd imagine with so many articles written around this, many different reasons....
I recently wrote "Slow Motion Multitasking", musing on the value of slowly moving between tasks and projects. Today a simpler thought around our choices around pace in this so, so fast moving world we live in, about the power of going slowly. I sense, from inspiration...
Microsoft just became the most valuable company in the world. This made big headlines, though very few people know the name of their CEO and few of the articles truly got into why his radically different style of humble leadership has been at the heart of that...
Today a Guest post reposted from his site, by my friend, the very sage Bruce Peters, in response to my recent post "Listening for Energy". From Bruce Peters: I've been derailed from writing for some time. It’s so much easier for me to write and, indeed, speak in the...
As I write this, today I was working with a CEO around where they plan to take their business in 2019. They have a big and bold transformative vision, and today it felt a little, well, too much for them to get from where they are to where they wish to go. I put to...
My definition of wisdom: "Wisdom is something concise that, once you hear it, you feel you always knew it" Today wisdom from Muhammad Ali, Alan Moore, and Seth Godin. In August 2018 I wrote: "Can Business be Beautiful and Profitable?" at a time when Alan Moore and I...
This is the latest in a sequence of posts on #BeautifulLeadership that all came from tweets and other news items I saw on the same day, November 29th. In the first post, "From Now On", I noted that "at least four wonderful examples of Beautiful Leadership found their...
Steph Curry with his daughter, Riley, on the way to another NBA Championship in 2018 Steph Curry is an NBA star. Steph Curry is a Father. Steph Curry just stepped up, with a highly link to the #HeForShe leader, Emma Watson. A great example of #BeautifulLeadership...
Yesterday I wrote the first in a sequence of posts on Beautiful Leadership, noting: "On one day alone last week, at least four wonderful examples of Beautiful Leadership found their way to me": an NBA star and father empowering young women by walking the talk. a brave...
In the time I've been posting daily on this site, from time to time recurring themes have come to me, hence you can use the search option and find about forty once weekly posts of "Movies with Meaning", and also a theme with many posts called "Writing I Love". Now...
This week I left home one day at 1pm for a truly intense day and a half of client work, yet when I got home late the next evening I felt great at all levels. The secret? Yes, I make sure I look after myself physically (sleep, exercise, nutrition etc), I am a...
Interior of Sagrada Familia I love cathedrals and other major centres of worship, such as Sagrada Familia, Hagia Sophia, Durham Cathedral and many others. A key aspect of such buildings is that almost all of those who were part of their construction knew that they...
I have designed my life to allow "intellectual crop rotation" and "slow-motion multitasking". The Gif above is the famous slow-motion walking scene that opens Reservoir Dogs. To me, this is the single most memorable and seminal moment in a classic movie. The...
Humility and what we choose to ground us. Ancient poetry is one for me, and you?
"I know in times like this you feel it doesn’t make a difference but keep showing up because hope is an action." ~ Florence Welch Sometimes a single line can move one person or many. Last week I joined 20,000 or so people to see Florence and the Machine perform at the...
Tranquility or Adventure? How will you choose to acknowledge your team this year?
Listening for energy. Tai Jin, one of your most powerful tools to develop as a leader.
As leaders, sometimes we push ourselves hard. Work hard, be busy, lead by example etc. We often then push our people to think, decide, do, deliver. In the #OpenLeadership model, I refer to this as #Warrior mode. It can work for a time yet ultimately depletes others....
This photo is of Dr Taylor Burrowes giving her TEDx Talk in Cayman in April 2014. I thought of Taylor today, somehow inspired by David Ross, a renaissance Kilmarnock man who posts every morning on Twitter as he wakes up about his face, hair and voice. Up. Face like an...
Be brave enough to keep it simple. How can you be brave enough to get your entire strategy down to a few words. Sharing my…
"It's simple, but not easy" Yesterday I wrote "To be truly radical is to make hope possible", and closed that post by saying today I'd write a little about what it takes for radical change. I love radical change, transformative and brave. Incremental change is...
"to be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing" ~ Raymond Williams Last week I was at the annual Meaning Conference in Brighton, which has the tagline "Meaning connects and inspires the people who believe in better business." At the...
"I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" ~ Leonardo Da Vinci I was recently asked to...
Kindness as Leadership. Learning from Mr Rogers
Be nice. Concise wisdom from @JeffDSachs #BeMoreYou
"Do work that you're proud of - work that matters for people who care. It's all about connection, empathy and making a difference." ~ Seth Godin Seth Godin inspired me to post daily. With well over 7,000 daily posts already he has moved way beyond the "marketing guru"...
This weekend the annual Kilkenomics economics and comedy festival in the gorgeous tiny city of Kilkenny. I write this on a Sunday morning musing on diversity of thought and "how much is too much?". We learned that Andy Haldane (Chief Economist of the Bank of England)...
Conscious mental exercise. Stories around bringing consciousness to stretch and grow our mind in everyday situations.
Not my circus, not my monkey. A mantra to avoid the Drama Triangle
Making a positive impact and (gasp) talking to people and making eye contact in London!
Alan Moore of Beautiful Business is a visionary of deep thought, care, intent and passion who is often way ahead of others in his ideas and direction. I have the great privilege of being at the beginning of supporting him as the "Keeper of the Vision", a vision of a...
Monday morning. My first calls and meetings start in an hour and will continue until late, so I sit here with one task at hand, to write the daily post to go out tomorrow morning. Normally that feels great, except today, there is a problem. I have no idea what to...
(c) Florian Radarte "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" also goes along with "a change is as good as a rest" I wrote some time ago in "Stop the “Busyness”": "Put simply, for leaders, less is more. Simple, yes? But how many of you just skipped over this and...