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One of the most interesting questions we get asked in Motivational Maps is how is our product – the Map – different from psychometric tests and personality profiles? In fact, are they different at all? Is it all the ‘same’ (but with a different name)? The question is interesting not only in itself – forcingContinue reading “STATES AND TRAITS”

One of my closest friends, David Orme (http://www.magic-nation.com/), told me a fascinating story the other night in a pub in Lyndhurst. The story seems to me to be relevant to all consultants, coaches, mentors and educators, but no matter how many times we tell it, people don’t get it. Perhaps sometimes we don’t get itContinue reading “SEEING THROUGH LISTENING”

If Leonard Cohen were a company or a corporation he would certainly show many of the current contenders how to do it. What showmanship, what quality, what teamwork – and what innovation (or creativity in music/poetry-speak). Last Saturday (11/7/09) I went to see his World Tour at the Mercedes-Benz World (http://www.leonardcohen.com/community.html). Unfortunately, the open concertContinue reading “LEONARD COHEN MOTIVATES”

Recently I seem to be on a literary bent so far as my Blogs are concerned. Last weekend I spent the time in Stratford upon Avon with my wife and son, Joe. Joe had a training event on at the King Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford (http://www.kes-stratford.org.uk/) , which incidentally is considered to beContinue reading “PATRIOTIC MOTIVATION”

One thing that never fails to surprise me is the power of words, especially in the hands of a good author. They sum it up – say it all – in one deft turn of phrase, and that can be so motivating, even when the message itself has nothing to do with motivation. I guess theContinue reading “SOME AUTHORS SAY IT …”

I was thinking about all the gloom and doom of the last 3 or 4 months . One amazing thing piled on another. How quickly we have forgotten the appalling guilt of the Bankers; surely because we have discovered the corruption of the politicians – one sickening, gut-wrenching list of betrayals after another.   ThereContinue reading “WHAT TO DO IN TOUGH TIMES”

Sometimes when I visit companies I become acutely aware of SPOW. SPOW is a buzz word that ought to have greater currency. According to the Free Dictionary SPOW means Scope and Program of Work. Nope. According to Wikipedia SPOW means Science Parks of Wallonia. Nope. They all have it wrong, and in any case weContinue reading “ARE WE SURVIVING SPOW?”

Motivational Maps Ltd, my company, has a fantastic product called the Motivational Map – it can tell you what your motivators are in rank order, what that means, and how motivated you are. Good, eh? Yes, but everything has its limitations, and today I ought to be frank about using the Maps, and possibly anyContinue reading “AVOID MOTIVATING GAME PLAYERS”

It’s been a Budget week and most commentators seem to think we have reached the end of an era: the New Labour project has ended, and we are in a new period. Well, thank God for that is all I can say! The news can be unremittingly bad – we start inhaling the atmosphere ofContinue reading “DE-MOTIVATION HAPPENS!”

We don’t know a lot about the life of William Shakespeare, which is surprising. When you consider how well documented some of his contemporaries were, when you consider that he was living well into the age of print, and when you consider how prolific and great a writer he was, then it most certainly isContinue reading “THE MOTIVATION OF SHAKESPEARE – ON HIS BIRTHDAY/DEATH DAY”