Bitcoin, Dr Doom, Tulips, Good Will Hunting all in one post…
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
What does great look like? A one page strategy….
Smashing Paradigms – Ellen
The words of the brave and inspiring Dr Taylor Burrowes on the inspiration and bravery of Ellen DeGeneres
To stay ahead of AI, teach our kids to play sports
Some thoughts on changing education, inspired by Jack Ma and Sir Ken Robinson
Writing I Love – “their finest hour”
The stoic who changed the course of 20th century history.
If I’d had more time….
If you had more time, would you create more, or create less and make it of more value? Who did you learn this from anyway?
Humble Leadership – “that’s family business”
Who is the greatest Basketball team ever and what can leaders learn from them ?
Smashing Paradigms – #TheFutureIsFemale
Jack Ma and Marla Dukharan inspiring and teaching us about the balance of IQ, EQ and LQ. Female leaders are the future!
Calvin and Hobbes – Leadership Wisdom
“Management is about DOING, but Leadership is about BEING”
Writing I Love – How to Stop Time
This week’s post featuring the wonderful novel by Matt Haig and a powerful quote from Montaigne.
Purpose – the need for meaning is infinite
What brings meaning to your life and work?
Stoicism – The Tao of Bobby Orr
A leader is someone other choose to follow. Could stoicism be a valuable tool for you to create followers for your leadership ?
Purpose – Clarity, Service, Virtuous circles
Some tips on what I’ve learned around helping people find their Purpose.
Writing I love – Alan Watts and the meaning of life
Take a moment to be present to the “profound and galvanizing lucidity” of Alan Watts.
Who are the purpose-driven leaders?
Three purpose-driven leaders and friends who have touched my life. Who do you touch and inspire?
A Purpose Story – “I have a dream”
Are you a purpose-driven leader? What is your “I have a dream?”, what drives you and has your people follow you?
A Trust Story: The Journey is the Destination
Moments of Truth. Do you Trust people in your business to create them?
Writing I love – the Roman Stoics
Stoicism as a tool for leadership and reducing anxiety, quieting the monkey mind
Take time for solitude
This morning I write this overlooking a beautiful and quiet garden on a winter's day in the Scottish Highlands. I am visiting friends and they have gone out for a while and I sit here in solitude and stillness. We have so much information in the world, so much for our...
Storytelling – A Purpose Story
Do you know your Purpose? Here is how I found mine through a peer group. Talk to me about joining our new group in London.
Emotional Equations – Hope
What are your thoughts on the Hope equation? Ben’s lottery concept? Bringing hope through entrepreneurialism?
Writing I love – Man’s Search for Meaning
The book I recommend to leaders above all others. Read why
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...
Mystic realism – Shoshin and Business
What if we bring a beginner’s mind to business leadership?
Emotional Equations – The Trust Equation
Emotions, energy, feelings and building and deepening Trust
Writing I love – Invictus
A masterful poem that has so often inspired me in both dark time and light.
Emotional Equations – What makes a Story?
In your story, what are your emotional desires, what is at stake?
Writing I love – Silence in the Age of Noise
Musing on silence. Do find time to rest and recharge and find silence at this time of year
Humble Leadership and the Chaos of Creating
Recently I wrote about the power of humility in leadership, how the role of a leader is to be "Keeper of the Vision" then simply create a space for those in the business to pose puzzles and ask questions, then to solve the puzzles and answer the questions. In that...
Humble Leadership and Trust
This week I met with a top executive coach who, in an earlier phase of life, was a famous sporting leader. In that phase of life, one example of their leadership created a famous day that will live on for many years. That moment was created by an example of leadership...
What makes Scots different ?
Would you trust a Scot?
InnSaei – to see from the Inside Out
"We have to be really ready to fail, the failure... to be part of the journey" "To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one" “in order to create something new human beings need to go into the unknown” Marina Abramovic, interviewed in the documentary...
This might work – flying close to the sun
Icarus Deception, still one of the most impactful books to me. How high will you fly ?
Smashing Paradigms – Adam Grant and Dan Pink
{latest in a developing series on Smashing Paradigms} Recently I used the "four monkeys" story to explain what a Paradigm is, then the next day used an example of "we've always done it this way" to look at why 55 million people commute (mostly) each year to Canary...
How do we know what we know? Posing Puzzles
How do we know what we know, and how do we know we know what we know?
Loss of Control and Growth
What is possible for you if you choose “loss of control” ?