“I just have terrible luck with jobs.” “I always end up with difficult teams.” “Every relationship I’m in turns out the same way.” “Opportunities never seem to work out for me.” I hear variations of this constantly. Smart, accomplished people attributing patterns in their lives to luck, timing, other people, circumstances beyond their control. And…
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Here is some Happy Friday/Weekend reading or contemplating….. Enjoy The Door That Shouldn’t Exist (And Why You Need To Walk Through It Anyway) There’s a film hardly anyone’s talking about called One Big Bold Beautiful Journey. The critics weren’t kind. The audience scores were middling. And yet, I walked away from it feeling like I’d been…
Great leadership is forged in space, not noise. Most executives are consumed by delivery, leaving little room for reflection, creativity, or strategy. The urgent crowds out the essential. Back-to-back meetings bleed into evening emails. Strategic thinking gets postponed until “things slow down” a moment that never arrives. Without space, leadership becomes maintenance instead of movement.…
Stepping out of the daily demands of leadership does more than create physical rest it creates cognitive space. When leaders, execs and entrepreneurs are away from constant meetings, decision pressure, and competing priorities, their thinking naturally reorganises. Ideas that were sitting in the background surface with clarity. It’s often during holidays that leaders notice: Clearer…
A Mastery of Doing Guide to a More Easeful Festive Season The festive season is meant to feel joyful, connective and restorative… but for many of us, the weeks before Christmas can feel more like a marathon of expectations, obligations and frantic to-do lists. I often support people who feel stretched thin at this time…
There is so much transpiring in the world right now, it is difficult to navigate all of it and why it is happening at once, but it is. The floods in Australia, the war in Ukraine, unrest between other big economic countries, stock markets remaining turbulent, petrol prices increasing almost daily, price of food…
Its funny, not funny ‘haha’ but ironically funny, Murphy’s law, those weird bizarre phenomena that we really know nothing about. But what we do know is, those days when it feels like nothing can go right…. It can roll something like this: Wake up, all is ok, but someone, anyone could be and…
Have you noticed? So many people are offering ‘coaching’ as a service or as part of a gamut of other skills. How they define coaching is up to them individually or as an organisation but what I think is important to understand here are a few things: The concept of coaching is working, we live…
It seems that we are moving ahead with COVID19, through the trials and implementations of vaccines, and various countries struggling through more ‘waves’ of the virus taking hold of their inhabitants, and countries assisting other countries in their times of need. The global community is attempting to work together to tackle this monstrous virus. But,…