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Why we need to ditch certainty and embrace uncertainty
Reading Time: 8 minutes Certainty is highly prized; so much of what we do and say revolves around creating certainty for ourselves, or projecting an aura of certainty for

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

Why Gardening Is A Great Metaphor For Working With Strengths
Reading Time: 10 minutes This morning, as I sat outside with my coffee admiring my summer flowers, I realised that gardening is a great metaphor for working with strengths.

Great results: Strategy 7 – use your strengths
Reading Time: 7 minutes If there is one strategy that comes close to being a silver bullet for almost anything you want to achieve, it’s to use your strengths.

How to turn great ideas into great results: why we struggle to get started
Reading Time: 4 minutes As leaders and managers, we often have a secret dream of finding the one great idea that will turbo-charge our teams and deliver extraordinary results.
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

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

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”.

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

Do You Know What Time It Is?
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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

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

How-to: Life area measurement exercise
Reading Time: 4 minutes In my post on self-care, I recommend that you conduct a life area measurement exercise. This simple exercise will help you identify what aspects of

Great Ideas: Strategy 5 – know nothing, be curious
Reading Time: 6 minutes This strategy sounds counter-intuitive, but the “know nothing, be curious” approach puts us on the pathway to developing fresh perspectives and gaining insights. And from

Burnout or balance: which will you choose?
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love my work. I love the flexibility to choose my hours and the interesting and fun projects and activities I get to do for

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
Emotions list
Reading Time: 4 minutes Emotional intelligence (EQ) is widely recognised as a key factor for leadership effectiveness. Having a rich “emotions” vocabulary is a great way to build your