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Success – what matters more, talent or hard work?
Reading Time: 6 minutes We live in a culture that worships talent as the path to success. Have you heard people describe someone at the top of their game
Why you need rest to be your best
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a bit ironic that I created the template for this article but never got around to writing it until I was forced into a
Goldilocks and a Pile of Salt – Why You CAN Have Too Much of a Good Thing
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ was one of my favourite fairy tales growing up. Salt is one of my favourite condiments. It seems weird to
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
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
Great results: Strategy 1 – prioritise
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s one thing to have a bunch of great ideas, it’s entirely another to turn those ideas into great results. The first step in the
Simple Strategies for Leading and Managing Change
Reading Time: 7 minutes Leading and managing change is one of the greatest challenges that leaders face. And it is also one of the greatest opportunities you have to
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
Leadership toolbox: how to build self-awareness
Reading Time: 8 minutes Self-awareness is a key life and leadership skill. At its most basic level, self-awareness is about developing your knowledge and understanding of yourself, and being
The power of a clear “No”
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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
Opinion: Why We Need to Embrace Paradoxes
Reading Time: 2 minutes The more that the world seems to be divided into extremes, the more I am drawn to the middle. Not mediocrity, fence-sitting, or refusing to
Why A Fellow Traveller is More Powerful Than Empathy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Empathy is wonderful, but what’s even more powerful is connecting with a fellow traveller. I learned that from talking to my cousin The picture by
Multitasking is a myth – how can you achieve more in less time, and feel better by single-tasking?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Once upon a time, “Multitasker Extraordinaire” was the big, shiny badge we all wanted to wear. We thought we could be super-human, combining conference calls
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
Culture element: communication
Reading Time: 7 minutes The element of communication is one of the most significant building-blocks to your organisational culture. We spend most of our days communicating with others. But
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