February 2024 ‘Some day you will be old enough To start reading fairy tales again’. I have never considered myself a ‘grown up’. Which is...

February 2024 "This is what is hardest: To close the open hand, because one loves." What is Nietzche talking about when he speaks of...

February 2024 Stop trying to be authentic. You already are. We're encouraged so often to be authentic these days, that it is no surprise...

February 2024 ‘It's your life. You don't know how long it's gonna last, but you know it doesn't end well.’ When Don Draper uttered those...

‘Show the readers everything. Tell them nothing’. The belief that suppressing our feelings is harmful has been around for a long time. So...

January 2024 Life calls the tune. We dance. For weeks after my recent motorcycle accident, I hovered, thanks to a plentiful supply of...

January 2024 "Mind sword. Mind people watching. Mind enemy." "Too many mind." It’s been 20 years since I sat, mouth agape, watching the...

January 2024 What do you do when you don’t know what to do? You could ask someone who does. But, how do you know they know? America's...

January 2024 Apparently, the truth will set us free. The question arises, then: Which truth is that? Nowadays, we all have our own...

(This first went out as a post on Linkedin at the end of November 2023, about 4 weeks after the accident. I include it here simply as a...

You probably already know you are your own worst enemy. We all are. In his outstanding book: The War of Art, Steven Pressfield speaks of...

Most Leadership Training is unnecessary. Certainly, at anything below Senior Management level. This is spoken as someone who actively...

There's nothing worse for a business than a culture of blame. It sours relationships and encourages paranoia. And, whatever the issues,...

A few years ago I worked with a group of Managers. All worked on the shopfloor of a large, fast-paced site with high output but some...

You’re almost certainly not a leader. And that’s ok. There is a plethora of (so called) expert advice around at the moment, telling us...

A story I tell shopfloor staff when they express doubt over the benefits of High-Performance Teams or mini-businesses, whatever you want...

Troubled waters ahead. Ever since boats have been putting to the water, there have been rules for dealing with bad weather. Unwritten...

There are some startlingly clever people in business today. It’s both encouraging and baffling. Encouraging because, well… we need clever...

When it comes to dealing with problems, there are only really two skills necessary to get it right: Defining the problem correctly and...

Stop hiding from conflict. We live in a world that tries to hide the fact that life as a human is one of snot, blood, tears and sweat....