Engagement

In an interesting post about ‘disrupting the disruption’: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan-clements-a61b684_coaching-alwayslearning-share-7454770209942548480-Iwzx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAC6ebwBKdyPO__fx2Bizw9IaxWK_Gvt71M). Nathan Clements challenges orthodox thinking about the role of leadership. I’d like to take the argument one step further and look at why sometimes it is so difficult for people to be genuinely creative or innovative. For example, A company with whom I was working with […]

There would be no such thing as adventures if everything went according to plan. It’s the anecdotes people tell of how they overcame adversity to achieve their goals that has us in rapt attention. The near misses, close calls, the lucky escapes make for good fireside yarns. They are the stories that excite us, that

I’m tired of this As fatigue sets in, our ability to respond degrades. You know the feeling – you are reading something and realise that you have taken none of it in and have to go back and start again. It’s that ‘war weary’ feeling of trying to mentally pick yourself up, dust yourself down

I know what it’s like. I’ve been there. 18 hour days cycling in all weather conditions high up in the remote Rockies, miles from civilisation, on my own, sleep deprived, hungry and physically tired. The effect was to reduce the quality of my decisions to worse than those of a drunk. I should not be