Training for Research: Failing with Style
Here’s the situation. You’re wearing a snorkel, fins and dry-suit, your feet dangling from the door of a helicopter battling…
Progressing our lives: Why is it hard? What can we do about that?
“What should be, or ought to be, is different from what is” (the error of ‘speculative thinking’ as defined by…
Learn to see what there is, not what you think there is. Especially about yourself.
Dreams and reality People can be unreliable, untrustworthy, self-serving, incapable and more besides. When things go wrong in ways they…
Lest We Remember
“Invert, always invert” recommended Jacobi. Like a cat, when we’re trying to see something clearly we should move our head…
Creative Leadership: An Outline
We wanted to invigorate a leadership development programme, and had some ideas about how we might blaze a trail for…
From Thought Leadership to “The Creative Leader”
You know what they say: “It’s been a journey”. I say it glibly, with my tongue firmly placed in my…
Quest for Knowledge
Sounds pretty arrogant, but I thought I’d seen it all. My role in leadership and management development had led me…
Stop trying to change yourself
It seems we really do desire to be clearer, more in control, more organised. Even if we find ways to…
The Learning Economy
I had the pleasure of being at the CIM Marketing debate recently which was held at The Hive in Manchester.…