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I have been in hospital now for several weeks. Recently a major development occurred – I was allowed home for 4 hour stretches mid-afternoon. Imagine that: weeks in an institution and being institutionalised, and then 4 hours of home. It has been wonderful – rediscovering my old home again – going through the door, sittingContinue reading “The Motivation of Memories”

Quoting Blake from memory – being on a hospital bed in a hospital: To see a world in a grain of sand, A heaven in a wild flower; To hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. is to remind myself of the glory that is everywhere around us inContinue reading “Small Joys”

Again, friends, regrets for the imperfect production of new blogs! But I have been in hospital for 5 of the last 8 weeks and am still there – having had 2 major operations, each over 5 hours long. Thus, somewhat emaciated but on the mend, I now peer out to see the motivational use ofContinue reading “On finding perfection”

One of the truisms of the last ten years has been the observation that what business needs is more leadership and less management. How true this is. Usually the distinction is made between leadership, which is effective, and management, which is efficient. And this rolls out into a number of other distinctions: leaders do theContinue reading “THE MANAGEMENT MANGLE”