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Recent articles
Why every piece of feedback is an interpretation, not the truth
Every piece of feedback you’ve ever given or received has been wrong 😱 People hate it when I tell them this, but then they pretty quickly come to realise that it’s true. We never see
Motivation follows action
Read that again. Motivation FOLLOWS action. Just take the first step If you’re waiting for the golden moment when you finally feel motivated enough to tackle that thing you’ve been dreaming of, you’ll be waiting
Are you caught in a loop?
Do you ever find yourself caught up in a never-ending pattern of negativity and reactivity with someone? The perception-reaction cycle If so, you’re probably caught in what I call the Perception Reaction Cycle. They do
AI tools vs. critical thinking
Depending on which AI checker you look at, I either passed with flying colours or failed miserably. I was curious, so I ran a test I’ve been thinking a lot about AI in recent months,
What difficult thing are you putting off?
If you keep putting it off, it will NEVER become easier. My experience in Brazil In 1995, I went to Brazil on an 11-month student exchange. I’d done a very short ‘Introduction to Portuguese’ course
Mean-girl tactics in leadership have got to STOP
Mean-girl tactics in leadership have got to STOP! Some women in power, for whatever reason, seek to undermine and derail other women. I’ve watched this dynamic play out recently in my own career and that
Series pages
Series: How to turn great ideas into great results
Welcome to my series on “How to turn great ideas into great results”. On this page, you’ll find links to the articles I’ve written detailing
Series: How to have great ideas
Welcome to my series on “How to have great ideas”. On this page, you’ll find links to the articles I’ve written detailing strategies for having
General posts
What Are Your Unrealised Strengths And Why Do They Matter So Much?
Imagine that you are facing a problem that is preventing you from moving forward, and you don’t know how to solve. You try one thing after another. Something that has
My 5-star reads of 2023
I read a tonne of books every year, and track all of my reads, from 5-star to 1-star, on Goodreads (check out my profile and reading lists here.) And because
Great results: Strategy 3 – experiment
Every discovery in human history has started out as some kind of experiment, but for some reason, the older we get, the less likely we are to experiment. But, as
The power of a clear “No”
The first time I heard the phrase “No is a complete sentence”, it blew my mind. All my life, I’d believed that if I said “No” to something, I had
Do You Know What Time It Is?
Time. Despite the English language’s love of pillaging other languages for rich and varied vocabulary, it forces this one tiny word to cover two very different concepts. In contrast, the
Why Are We Ignoring The Need For Strategically Flexible Leadership?
Since early 2020, all of the focus about flexible work seems to be on what arrangements need to be made for workers to get things done, and not on how
