This new book, Leading for a Change, by Paul Canon Harris is a worthy addition to the ever-growing literature on change and leadership. Indeed, one of its strengths is precisely that it makes so strong a connection between leadership and change; some leadership books seem to regard leadership as merely the possession of certain abstractContinue reading “Book Review: Leading for a Change by Paul Canon Harris”
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Being Able and Breaking Compulsions
It was Vivekenanda who said, "That man who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God." And as with faith, so with love: we cannot not love ourselves and yet think we can love another. Loving oneself is not a selfish act, but a healthy one; at root it is an affirmationContinue reading “Being Able and Breaking Compulsions”
Very Good or Perfect?
God, it says in Genesis, created the world, the cosmos, the universe, and the interesting question is: what is the first thing He (speaking anthropomorphically here of course) does after the creation? Well, quite naturally, he does what I did on the birth of my son: I wanted immediately to look at him and thenContinue reading “Very Good or Perfect?”
9 Top Tips to Tune Teams
Everyone who runs a business, or is in sport, or simply is involved with various types of charity or voluntary groups – hey, even who has a family! – wants to know how to tune a team and make the team more effective. So here are my nine top tips. I say tips but rulesContinue reading “9 Top Tips to Tune Teams”
Homer’s Odyssey and Personal Development
‘Narrative may be regarded as a primary act of mind’, as someone once said, and so it proves true in all great stories: they tell us the primary truths about ourselves, and often what seems to be only an objective narrative is also an internal account of what is going on in the soul ofContinue reading “Homer’s Odyssey and Personal Development”
Getting creative
We meet many people, and young people, who are bored. For many this is an affectation, but a dangerous one, that can easily become a full time state of mind. At the weekend I was at an Open Fencing tournament where my son competed. One of the top fencers there confided to me, after heContinue reading “Getting creative”
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”
The Mapping Motivation Series 