Category Archives: Weblogs

My solicitor recently sent me a Croner briefing on creativity: “Creativity – are we in our right minds?” (Smaller Business Briefing Issue 143). This excellent piece of work draws attention to the concept of creativity and its application. Sometimes being in business can be so operational that we forget Drucker’s dictum that only two thingsContinue reading “CREATIVITY, LEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS”

One of the truly difficult things to come to terms with is the failure of the ‘system’. By which I mean your system, my system, anybody’s system. It’s as if we invest so much time and effort and creativity into inventing systems that we cannot accept when they fail or crash. The recent financial crashContinue reading “MOTIVATION AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY”

This last week has truly been a momentous and depressing time. No-one who is in business could but fail to be concerned about banking and stock exchange crises which are unfolding if only because virtually all businesses depend on the health of the economy for their own survival; of course, it is equally concerning forContinue reading “MOTIVATION AND ECONOMICS”

I completely agree with Mani Goel's view on the importance of self talk in developing strong self-esteem – and see his excellent web site for more: http://powerofselfesteem.com/ My point, however, is not incompatible with the view that primacy must be given to self-talk. The creation of a body of physical evidence that 'proves' to our ownContinue reading “MANI GOEL AND SELF TALK”

I have just been reading a great new book by Pascoe Sawyers called MePLC: http://meplc.moonfruit.com/ . Influenced by various authors, Pascoe’s contention is that we need to run our lives like we’d run our business, and one paradoxical contention of that is we need to put ourselves first. Once, and only then, we have lookedContinue reading “MOTE QUOTES!”

In my last Blog I said I would give some examples of my own Log of achievement: achievement that creates a body of evidence that persuades one’s own sub-conscious to believe that it is worthy, it is capable, and that beyond the negative good things happen even to me! Before I delve – almost randomlyContinue reading “THE SELF ESTEEM LOG THAT MOTIVATES”

I had a great training day the other day on motivation and self-esteem. During it I recommended a simple technique for increasing self-esteem which I have found over the years to work. One of my clients, Adrian, said, “You ought to write a blog about that”. Hm. Good idea. Dr Nathaniel Brandon called self-esteem theContinue reading “SELF ESTEEM AND MOTIVATION”

Probably the most well established fact about why businesses fail is that the number one reason is: they don’t communicate! Invariably, they fail to communicate with customers as well as staff. The next result of this failure is lack of interest and lack of belief in the organization. Communication itself is a broad term coveringContinue reading “LISTENING’S MOTIVATIONAL POWER”

Is it me or is it just a faddish whim i am experiencing when i say i wish to have some quiet motivation? Apparently we need motivation to get us out of our comfort zone – that area of un-achievement familiar to most people i guess at some period of their life. In that senseContinue reading “QUIET MOTIVATION”

I was looking up Motivational Memos as a Google search hoping to find my own blog – we sometimes need validation, don't we? I'm here, right? The blog exists too? Lo, there it was but in a synchronistic moment i discovered another blog for motivational memos: http://www.motivationalmemo.com/the-longevity-of-positivity/ and what a delight that was! Peter Sinclair hasContinue reading “ROLE MODELS AND THE IDEAL SELF”