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 . . .
I like Bill Critchley’s story of coaching a senior government official with whom, after a few sessions, he felt he was making little impact. He admits to feeling inadequate, and increasingly anxious that he wasn’t living up to his coachee’s expectations. The problem centered around everything Mr Critchley coming up with being something his coachee had… Read More Taking a risk . . .
“Growth isn’t for the timid. It takes honesty to admit that you aren’t as good as you could be. But being honest about your need for growth is only half the battle; to truly see change, you must summon the courage to act.” John Maxwell (November 2016)
Over Christmas, I played a gloriously silly game with my family where we had to guess the words or phrase on a card just from looking at an image trying to convey their meaning. It was an innocent, funny family moment, and we each had our own talents and preferences that shone through and enabled us… Read More Can you do nothing?
If only I’d been any good at maths, I might have been a scientist. But I wasn’t, and I’m not. So when the world of popular science opened up a few years ago, I devoured what was being written by a range of very patient authors who gave more than a nod to people like… Read More Back to basics . . .
No. 9 in my Note to self series. Print if off, cut it out, keep it close.
Lovely words. You were so right Kev.
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