In this work-from-home weirdness that we’ve been in for a while now, one of the most-asked questions I get is how to motivate myself and my team. What do to to raise the energy and stop the inevitable slide onto the sofa? At least that’s how it seems. But what if there was one very simple tactic, that always worked, was easy to implement, and you could do from anywhere… Interested?
Read MoreLeadership is not a 'thing' we can easily describe, it has no outside form (even when we think it does, you'll find that different people describe it differently). But it does show up in different ways, ways that are visible, and can be measured. And that's what a leader is doing, understanding the relationship between the visible and the invisible, and knowing where the leverage is.
Read MoreIf you always play the same game, you’ll always get the same results. That much seems obvious. And are we setting ourselves up for the mental equivalent of a repetitive strain injury, burn-out, boredom, restlessness, or under-performance? How are you limiting yourself and what would it take to become a lot more adaptable?
Read MoreWhat is it we’re doing when we aim to create ‘lasting change’ or to ‘make a meaningful difference in the world’? In this personal piece, I reveal how the world looks to me, how that differs from some of the words I sometimes use to describe what I do, and how that relates to authenticity and impact.
Read MoreWhen we feel stuck it can be a big deal, we can go down a whole rabbit warren of possible solutions and come up empty, perhaps thinking this is just 'the way things are'. But no. The answer is actually simple as soon as you realise how the mind works.
Read MoreWhat's the source of a joyful life? A creative life? Does it come from the amount of ‘stuff’ the shiny colourful objects we house around us, and in us in the form of ideas? What if we go back to first principles of where joy comes from and how we can have more of it? What does that tell us?
Read MoreThere seems a collective malaise at the moment, characterised by my world feeling very small. I know I'm not alone in this, so what do i chose to do and how can it help you too?
Read MoreI could write a book about this topic of self-leadership but, when it comes to taking the wiser course, to being able to ‘control’ what we do, settle out minds and find answers to our most vexing questions, the fundamental action can be summed up in a simple three step process… (read on to discover what this is)
Read MoreHow does it work when we pay for something? Does that make us more ‘committed’? Let’s take a look at what it means to have ‘skin in the game’ and why we think we need a proxy to know whether or not we’re committed.
Read MoreIf we live in a world of perpetual motion, where the best leaders flourish and the mediocre get left behind, what is great strategy and how can you get good at it? Good strategy is really simple, but it might not be what you think. What if there was a simple re-orientation that could exponentially increase your ability to ‘do’ strategy? Would you be interested?
Read MoreFrom time to time, clients ask me for ‘advice’ on a (money) negotiation question. I don't consider myself the 'money' person but here's what I've noticed, and the exact process we follow, after years of results exceeding their, and my, expectations.
Read MoreWe all want to do—we want to achieve—but we also want it to feel good, yet somehow those two things don’t seem to be able to be measured on the same scale, or even in the same plane. What is the solution, and how do we create an experience of constructive contribution, participation in activities that feed our soul, while trying to ‘make stuff happen’? How do we know how much is enough?
Read MoreLiving up to our full potential… They sound like inspiring words but they’re loaded with such a lot of judgement and opinion. Let’s take a look at how we could be innocently holding ourselves back.
Read MoreHabits… what if, instead of willing ourselves to create new habits and battling to stick to them (usually unsuccessfully!), there is something that we already know how to do, that is easy, that makes sense for us, and that creates significantly more impact than the ‘old’ way of doing habit-setting?
Read MoreWe often think the solution to procrastination is to fit more things into the time we have available. But what if we have something else at our disposal? What if we have access to a ‘magic’ resource and a whole team of invisible helpers who can do all the ‘doing’ while you’re not thinking about it…? Would that be cool?
Read MoreWhat can my organisation do to support its staff to be more resilient? What kind of training should we be offering? Well, before we do anything at all, it might be helpful to understand exactly what we're talking about--then the design will be easy.
Read MoreThere is no shortage of good ideas when it comes to solving the global challenges we see around us. But is it really the quality of the idea that makes the difference? Or is there something else we should be focusing on?
Read More'How am I doing?' seems like a useful question for anyone,and especially for leaders, but what if it isn't? Or what if the answers you get may not give you any useful information? What to do instead?
Read MoreWe can probably agree that this has been a year when we’ve had to draw on reserves perhaps more than others. Resilience is what we usually call this, but what is it, how can we access it and what do we know when we’re feeling low?
Read MoreAre you scoring an ‘own goal’ with your goal-setting? Do you find that it’s another way to fail? That you never quite do what you think you should be doing, no matter what a good idea it seemed at the time you decided it? And how do you balance all of this inside an organisation? Let’s have a look and see…
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