Don’t take this the wrong way, but… I had to laugh. I was sitting in the car on the way home from Paris talking about my future plans when the person next to me says: “Don’t take this the wrong way…” You absolutely know that what’s coming next will start with “but…” and will almost […]
Read MoreSometimes a good way of looking at things is to turn them on their heads. Or by standing on yours, of course, but at my age that’s a little more tricky; things might fall out, not a pretty picture… It can really help liberate some upside down insights which, when turned back the right way […]
Read MoreThere’s something empowering about the thought that the future doesn’t exist yet. All the products we’ll be using and projects we’ll be working on and successes we’ll be celebrating in 10 years’ time are as yet but latent, unimagined options, waiting to be light-bulbed into being. Some people think the future does exist, of course, […]
Read MoreChange of career? Tidy of desk? Finish of article? Decide of life? Often it is that we have the impression of something important niggling at the nether reaches of our consciousness that we really should be getting on with. Most of us have experience of putting things off until another day, that flagging of enthusiasm, […]
Read MorePrecious raw materials have certainly moved on a lot from the days of literally digging for gold in the dust bowls of far-off fantasy-fueled promised lands. ‘Talent mining’ is now a thing (with 5 ‘levels’, no less), and highly developed human intellectual and emotional properties are the new true wealth of many an organisation. Access […]
Read MoreThere are many reasons why we can’t, or often don’t want, to see the real problem in a difficult situation. Once the actual flash point has been identified though, potential solutions will flow boosted by the motivating belief that they will actually have a positive effect. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it […]
Read MoreThis is a good one. Not only is it true (as far as I’m concerned), it’s got a cool play on words, and to cap it all, it’s short! What more could you ask for in a cute pithy quote peeps? And talking of word play, try saying the last four words of the last […]
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