Keeping ideas fresh: what’s needed next. Keeping ourselves fresh – in mind, body, spirit – through this winter currently feels like a big ask. Moving through these confusing Tiers and Levels tells us we are on a downward curve, which...
- 28 October 2020
Are we there yet…? Groundhog Day, Covid Times, lockdown, no lockdown, action replay – depending on where you live, there’s more or less confused messaging, go to work, don’t go to work, here’s more freedom, then less. Wherever we are in...
- 30 September 2020
Starting from the right ‘Place’ It’s been more than 4 months now. That’s a good 16+ weeks of working and living and socialising online. Without much warning and with almost no preparation the world of work (and everything else) went...
- 29 July 2020
Is it time for some ‘dangerous’ thinking?! It seems to me that we’ve been going through an enormous real-life, real-time experiment where Nature has somehow upended the world – and the results are starting to come in. Working with a...
- 29 May 2020
How are you getting on, further weeks into lockdown? I do hope you are well. What have you noticed afresh since the end of March? Do you sense changes in yourself and your capacities to adapt to an emerging and uncertain...
- 15 April 2020
How are you in this astonishing and exhausting new time of Covid-19? I think we are all still in shock, working at making ourselves do what humans so dislike to do – manage swift change and adaptation. I wonder...
- 15 March 2020
‘For good and bad, habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. Research suggest that about 40% of our behaviour is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.’ This quote is from ‘Better Than Before’, Gretchen Rubin’s remarkable...
- 15 October 2019
What is one thing you know you need to do in order to say with your life ‘my thinking matters’? Health warning: this is a big question, so please take time out to consider it. It goes deep. Or to...
- 8 October 2019
“We love this way of working, we get so many ideas and such great energy from it. The only problem is we still find it hard to make decisions.” That’s a summary of the kind of thing sometimes said to...
- 28 June 2019
When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently...
- 18 May 2019