Reflection. Exploration. Action. Contrary to Meatloaf’s famous dictum, we can’t skip one and still expect things to play out as we'd wish.

One of the commonest complaints I hear is from directors and owners who know they are spending too much time working in the business, and not enough working ...

Have you ever found yourself looking at your world through a different lens which suddenly triggers a crashing moment of realisation? Nothing has actually ch...

Have you experienced a setback recently? Last year I read a great article in the New York Times by Tara Parker Pope about how we can boost resilience. Maybe ...

I was recently on a course where the issue was raised about what a struggle it can be to learn, adapt and change. The following story was shared during the ...

I came across the poem ‘The Guesthouse’ by Rumi the other day. I was staggered to learn he was a Persian poet in the 13th century, given how meaningful the w...

As Carl Sagan quotes, “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” Good point. But do you find it easy to keep an open mind under p...

How often do you put something off for fear of it turning out less than perfect? I’ve been reading a great book by Helen Whitten, in which I am reminded abou...

I recently came across a great poem by Portia Nelson called ‘There's a Hole in My Sidewalk’. Using the hole and the sidewalk as an analogy for how we navigat...