My Blog

This blog is for me, it’s my sketch pad where I think things through and work things out. Having worked ‘stuff’ out I think it’s good to declare it, so I am sending it to you. Hopefully you will also find it useful.

Latest Posts

Are you up for a trophic cascade?

17th February 2020

This story has been viewed over 14 million times and is a great metaphor for the work we do with executive and project leadership teams enabling them to bring about remarkable change.

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Get above the fray

10th February 2020

This is about gaining perspective, using the big picture and regaining the power to mobilise effort. As a leader you can’t do it on your own stuck down at street level. It’s that constant ‘trying to’ that is killing business and businessmen. Here’s an alternative.

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Why your organogram won’t save you

2nd February 2020

How can teams delivering critical projects establish a basis for success, whether at inception or after. Good luck if you are relying on an organogram or The Contract. Were talking about ‘people’ here, right!

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Dissent and psychological safety: Testing some theories with Tim Bowers

6th December 2019

Collaboration is the only way to create value and innovate and psychological safety is the oil that lubricates it. Tim Bowers and I explore fresh thinking on collaboration. A mini collaboration …..

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Let me entertain you

7th October 2019

That might work for Robbie Williams but it doesn’t for me nor, ultimately, for my customers. I’m going to leave the entertainment to the likes of Robbie. No icing on dogs turd here.

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Strengthen resilience, get on the front foot and handle whatever happens …..

16th September 2019

Sick of being on the defensive, Jane and her team decide to strengthen their resilience. Way to go team! Let’s see how ….

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So, what do you mean by “radical accountability”?

24th August 2019

Non-radical accountability is accepting the status quo, complaining about how busy we are, on task, maintaining the status quo and the drift to disaster. Confusion abounds. Radical accountability is liberating, exciting, radical …..

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In appreciation of being understood; I think it could be rare.

16th August 2019

How lucky am I to work with someone who understands me and really gets what I do? Very.
Feeling understood really motivates me, it somehow feels like a basic human need and I appreciate it here ….

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Shush, give the thinker a chance to think

15th June 2019

If you want something to change you need to enable new thinking. Old thinking reinforces the status quo. Here’s how I think you can tell if the person you are thinking with is thinking old thinking or new thinking and why its useful to have a coach.

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Would you prefer your people to be safe or strong?

9th January 2019

Two leading thinkers have got me thinking. Yuval Noah Harari suggests we teach kids the Four C’s to prepare them for the 2050 job market. And Jordan Peterson asks parents if they would prefer their kids to be safe or strong. I’m thinking what about the grown-ups here, now, in 2019?

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