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Recent articles
My mantra when life gets hard
Reading Time: 2 minutes The old saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” gets trotted out all too often when someone is going through a hard time. I don’t think it’s particularly useful. It’s trite and can come
Happy birthday to Unleash Your Awesome!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Happy birthday to Unleash Your Awesome! It’s hard to believe that my first book is now a year old! The first month was a blur of activity – from shipping out copies of the book
The joys and perils of working from home
Reading Time: < 1 minute “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 attention, and she’s very good
My 5-star reads of 2022
Reading Time: 7 minutes After the success of my article about my 5-star reads of 2023, I decided to create this: my 5-star reads of 2022! I read a tonne of books every year, and track all of my
My 5-star reads of 2022 – list version
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here are my 5-star reads of 2022, in list format. If you’d like the pretty, picture-rich version with all the linky goodness, plus my reviews, check it out here. I read a tonne of books
My 5-star reads of 2023
Reading Time: 10 minutes 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 I religiously track what I’ve
Series pages
Series: How to turn great ideas into great results
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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
Reading Time: < 1 minute 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’s with the worship of busyness?
Reading Time: 6 minutes As I wrote the title to this article, I wondered how many people would read it and think that I had mis-spelled “business” as “busyness”. After all, a number of
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses
Reading Time: 6 minutes If you’re like me, you have sat in countless training sessions or performance reviews being told to identify your weaknesses and develop strategies to compensate for or overcome them. Did
Leadership Toolbox: what we need to know for living with complexity
Reading Time: 13 minutes Note: This article was originally published on 23rd March 2020. There’s a lot going on in the world right now. We are seeing a massive global response to the COVID-19
What A Pizza Disaster Can Teach Us About Mistakes
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
The Link Between Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
How To Find The Sweet Spot For Your Strengths
Reading Time: 7 minutes The key to getting the most out of working with your strengths is knowing how to find the sweet spot for each strength. This article will teach you five simple