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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
Navigating your life path
Are you focusing on the doors that closed for you in the past or all the possible doors in front of you? This image is from an excellent New York
What Many Approaches to Strengths Get Wrong
I love the huge variety of strengths-based approaches that are out there, but many of them get one key thing wrong. They focus on the extremes of super-strengths and worst
The Link Between Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths
Appreciative Inquiry is a method for solving problems and implementing change by focusing on the positive. It emerged from the work of David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva in the late
A Tribute to the Humble Nana Nap
I’m a HUGE fan of the nana nap. There, I said it! I often see comments like “You can sleep when you’re dead” or “Sleep is for the weak”. As
The joys and perils of working from home
“Work from home”, they said. “So few distractions”, they said. “Lots of opportunities for focus and deep work”, they said. This happens multiple times a day. Molly likes, no, DEMANDS
What A Pizza Disaster Can Teach Us About Mistakes
Life tends to serve me up metaphors at every turn – and the last day of 2021 gave me a fantastic object lesson in my attitude towards mistakes. The Great
