Leadership skills . . .
13 Leadership Skills You Didn’t Need A Decade Ago That Are Now Essential A Forbes Coaches Council insight on leadership skills required for the modern leader. See what you think.
Month: May 2017
You won’t know ’til you try . . .
I was recently privileged to be included in a new author’s planning session, where together we threw around title ideas for a good couple of hours. It was a wonderfully creative moment and I left feeling completely humbled by being given the opportunity to do this. And more than this … a reminder of two big life… Read More You won’t know ’til you try . . .
How times have changed . . .
I came across a delightful story about the difference between the scout badges you could earn 100 years ago, and those available today. I especially liked Clerk (1911) and Digital Maker (2017) – a great contrast between the then and now. For the full story, see the BBC, Newsbeat. I wonder what’s coming around the… Read More How times have changed . . .
Give it a try . . .
“If you really want something in this world,’ said Olga simply, ‘you’ll never get it by sitting down and waiting. But if you go out and do things there’s no knowing where you’ll end up.” Michael Bond, The Tales of Olga Da Polga
Choosing my battles . . .
I would like a superpower. Nothing too extravagant or destructive. It’s simple really. I’d like to be able to instantly do the following when I’m in a public place and being more than a tad annoyed by people around me: Turn down the volume of loud people This would apply whenever: They are in a… Read More Choosing my battles . . .
Trying to understand . . .
On understanding love … “Multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I’m talking about.” Bill Parrish (Sir Anthony Hopkins) in Meet Joe Black (And only the amazing Sir Anthony could deliver this line so exquisitely.)
Thinking outside . . .
A delicious quote. It made me think about what can happen when we start to look at things through a different lens, or are prepared to take on new challenges and do things differently. As I often say … our possibilities are endless!
Who do you need to be?
At last . . .
Excellence Comes From Saying No – Harvard Business School (June 2015) Frances Frei and Amy Schulman taught students to identify and overcome the barriers to personal and professional excellence, with a simple, underlying philosophy: . . . in order to achieve excellence, you need the courage to be bad. So . . . we can’t… Read More At last . . .
Just to remind you . . .
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” The provenance of this quote is unproven – though it’s often attributed to Mary Anne Evans (aka George Eliot). A good reminder of its sentiment, nonetheless.
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