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Saturday, April 24th, 2010From Seth’s blog I do wish someone had explained this fully to me when I was 16 or 18 or 20 or 30. Here’s the mistake we make in high school: We let anyone, just anyone, judge our work (and by extension, judge us.) Sue, the airheaded but long-legged girl in Spanish class gets the [...]
Simon Tyler – Intangibly Articulate a film by Nic Askew
Friday, April 23rd, 2010This is a wonderful film about what “coaching” is or isn’t and does or doesn’t. intangibly inarticulatable from Nic Askew on Vimeo.
Kolbe Wisdom™ – The Striving Instincts and Beyond.
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Last time I introduced the principles behind the Kolbe Wisdom™. How, by using the 32-question Kolbe A Index, it is possible to identify the striving instincts that drive natural behaviours. I outlined the four Conative Characteristics: Fact Finder – Gathering and sharing of information. Follow through – Sorting and Storing Information. Quick Start – Dealing [...]
More – a film about more by Nic Askew
Saturday, March 6th, 2010It has been a challenging and rewarding week that has seen me finally face up to one of the biggest “elephants in my room”. This isn’t the place to share the details but I am in a blinkers on mode and wanted to make a permanent record of the fact that I have made a [...]
Strictly Business: Why Are You Doing This? – Philip Humbert
Thursday, January 28th, 2010From Philip Humbert’s most recent newsletter, subscribe at his website www.philiphumbert.com Strictly Business: Why Are You Doing This? Every successful business leader has a clear answer to this vital question: Why are you building this company? Who does it serve and what’s your greater purpose? Answering these questions costs you very little, and it can [...]
The Ubiquity of Competition – Seth Godin
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010From the ever excellent and thought provoking Seth Godin. How does this apply to you? The ubiquity of competition Sure, there are playoffs in football, but competition is everywhere, we just forget to notice it. There are three hundred photographers looking for work in a particular specialty. One puts a creative commons license on his [...]
10 Actions To Take Your Leadership and Management Success To The Next Level by Duncan Brodie
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Nice piece by Duncan Brodie. 10 Actions To Take Your Leadership and Management Success To The Next Level Action 1: Do an honest self assessment It might be tough to do but if you are serious about moving forward, you need to take a long hard look at where you are right now in terms [...]
Authentic Leadership by Neil Crofts
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Nice blog piece by Neil on Leadership It is always exciting when our most urgent need and our greatest opportunity coincide. In both the public and the private sectors we have an urgent need for great leadership. Not just any old great leadership, but authentic, great leadership. Firstly – What is Authentic Leadership? In my [...]
Integrity – Without It Nothing Works
Thursday, January 14th, 2010From HBS “Working Knowledge” – the full piece is here. “An individual is whole and complete when their word is whole and complete, and their word is whole and complete when they honour their word,” says HBS professor Michael C. Jensen in this interview that appeared in Rotman: The Magazine of the Rotman School of [...]
8 questions and a why – Seth Godin
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I do wish I had seen this before I set up any businesses. 8 questions and a why Who are you trying to please? What are you promising? How much money are you trying to make? How much freedom are you willing to trade for opportunity? What are you trying to change? What do you [...]
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