New Year's Resolutions – do they work? Are you setting yourself a New Year's Resolution this year? Will this be a positive boost to you in 2011 or will you find your resolution starts well and fizzles after a week or two? What has been your experience in previous years? How well are you settingContinue reading “New year resolutions”
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Driven or called?
I recently asked on my Linkedin status bar whether you were driven or called? This is an interesting concept I picked up from Gordon Macdonald's book, Ordering your Private World, which won't be to everyone's taste in its evangelical fervour, but still contains some very insightful comments. I particularly liked Gordon's description of the eightContinue reading “Driven or called?”
What’s it all about?
It's that time of year: we approach Christmas and whatever is your religious festival or belief we are led with the imminence of a holiday – holy day – to reflect on what is this being here all about? In the case of Christmas it is pretty clearly about the birth of a baby andContinue reading “What’s it all about?”
What is going on?
Everyone of us wants to know what's going on. What's going on with the Government – what are they going to do? What's going on in our neighbourhood – what's my neighbour doing? What's going on with my family – who's my spouse talking to? I guess it's because we are curious, but more thanContinue reading “What is going on?”
Leaders breaking hierarchical norms
One of the most important aspects of being a leader is generating creativity – innovation – in the organisation. This is often perceived as being an issue to do with product or service development; rarely about how the very structures in which people operate can be loosened – the hierarchical norms in fact. These structuresContinue reading “Leaders breaking hierarchical norms”
Philosophy and coaching
Went on a LinkedIn discussion group today and contributed to a discussion about whether philosophical thinking helps improve coaching approaches and outcomes. The answer has to be 'yes', I think, because how can analytic thinking not help any approach, process or outcome? Once upon a time the catchphrase – word – of IBM was 'Think'.Continue reading “Philosophy and coaching”
Professor Roger Steare’s Ethicability
I have just been reading the PWC report on Trust: the behavioural challenge; this emerges from PWC’s ongoing collaboration with Professor Roger Steare, a contributor to these blog pages. It’s certainly wide-ranging, challenging, and relevant to the market we find ourselves in today. What is it saying then? First, I would like to goContinue reading “Professor Roger Steare’s Ethicability”
Playing darts with Dr Dave
Last weekend I went on an expedition with Dr Dave Richards, the great business strategist (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/drdaverichards). In fact we decided to have a brief weekend away to re-charge. Our destination was the tiny fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall. Tiny is a good word for it; as is remote – you certainly need to beContinue reading “Playing darts with Dr Dave”
Seeing the invisible
In my last blog I mentioned the difference between commodity-driven and value-driven organisations. One corollary of this distinction is the difference between what is visible – a commodity/the money – and what is invisible – a value/the truth. We can see or handle money; but a value – for example, truth – we cannot seeContinue reading “Seeing the invisible”
Two kinds of people
Somebody once said that there are two kinds of people: the kind of people who divide the world into two kinds of people, and the kind of people who don’t. Beautiful paradox. But I guess dividing the world into two is hard-wired into us : as the Tao Che Ching says. From the One cameContinue reading “Two kinds of people”
The Mapping Motivation Series 