How do we get to WE?
There is something in the air. Call it my natural human tendency to find patterns in things, but two recent conversations with two different clients in two different cities have reminded me of two...
View ArticleHow can we create new patterns of inter-relating at work?
I have been interested in the furore that has followed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banning workers from working from home. I’ve also read that Hubert Joly, the new chief at struggling retailer Best Buy...
View ArticleWhat is sociometry?
Carl Sagan has said, “There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” He goes on to say that we have “a responsibility to deal more kindly with each other.” Where can...
View ArticleWhere is the love?
In “On the Waterfront”, Eve Marie Saint’s character, Edie, is on a date with Marlon Brandon’s character Terry, and as they sit and talk and get to know a little about each other, she enquires about...
View ArticleSeven principles to strengthen relationships at work
photo by John Wenger, 2014. That’s some good clickbait, huh? A friend observed “subtle undertones of humour” in my last post, so I thought I’d continue in that vein with a shameless clickbait title....
View ArticleWhat the world needs now…
…is love sweet love. As Burt Bacharach and Hal David said, that’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. I shall resist reminding you of the many horrible and ugly things happening in the...
View ArticleWhat we need to learn
Bring to mind one of your best working moments. One of those times when you felt on top of the world, when you were just ‘flowing’ or when you felt the warm glow of success. It could have been when...
View ArticleCourage in the first instance
A wise teacher once suggested that it requires the same amount of courage to do something difficult, whether you do it instantly or leave it until later. “Courage in the first instance, not the...
View ArticleLooking away
I recently found myself carrying out a bit of research in the ten minutes I had waiting at a bus stop. Not at all scientific or statistically significant, it was probably more of a intense ten minute...
View ArticleWhat I learnt from Charlie
Be here now. Be. Here. Now. That’s really all there is. A good teacher doesn’t actually have to do much. A good student will be paying enough attention to learn the next thing they are ready for....
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