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Great ideas: Strategy 1 – have lots of ideas
Reading Time: 5 minutes Welcome back to my “How to have great ideas” series. If you’re looking to learn new ways to generate great ideas, you’ve come to the
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Seven steps to turn your “to-do” list into an “achieved” list
Reading Time: 7 minutes It starts with that familiar sinking feeling, as we scurry around trying to do the million things on our mental “to-do” list, and instantly think
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The Scientific Way To Become More Lucky
Reading Time: 5 minutes Do you believe that it’s possible to become more lucky? Most people tend to think that they, and others, are either lucky, or unlucky –
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Great ideas: Strategy 7 – don’t prejudge your ideas
Reading Time: 7 minutes We’re shifting focus slightly in this post, to look at a strategy that will keep our thinking and idea generation as broad and open as
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Kindness: a better business strategy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kindness. It’s a scorned, if not outright rejected concept in business – it’s too soft, too weak. We can’t be kind, because to be in
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The 86 Days In 2022 When You Can Create Lasting Change
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do people make New Year resolutions? After all, 1st January is a day just like any other day in the calendar, right? Or is
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Great results: Strategy 5 – involve others
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’ve read through my previous series on how to have great ideas, ‘involve others’ will be a familiar strategy for you. There’s an excellent
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Work-life balance or work-life harmony?
Reading Time: 9 minutes So much has been written about work-life balance, but there are a number of problems with the concept. Work-life harmony offers a framework that acknowledges
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Great results: Strategy 2 – align your actions to your vision
Reading Time: 5 minutes Hand-in-hand with prioritising your ideas, it’s vital to align your actions to your vision. When we don’t align things properly, we waste an awful lot
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How to flex your strengths and deal with weaknesses
Reading Time: 9 minutes Weakness. Most of us cringe inwardly even just hearing that word. We’ve been taught that weaknesses are something to be ashamed of, and there are
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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
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Is Your Team Made Up of Rockstars or Superstars?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I love the distinction that Kim Scott makes in her book ‘Radical Candor‘ [non-affiliate link] between rockstars and superstars. And I think it has huge
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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
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If you want to be good at something, first you’ve got to be bad
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s a simple truth in life that I have encountered too many times to count… If I want to be any good at anything, first
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Leadership Toolbox: getting to grips with empathy
Reading Time: 5 minutes In my first Leadership Toolbox post, I talked about the importance of self-care for leaders. Self-care involves turning our attention inward, to manage our own
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Great results: Strategy 6 – get a coach
Reading Time: 6 minutes The “get a coach” strategy is one that works in so many aspects of our work and life. That’s why it also featured in my