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
How was your February? It’s taken me till now to get this brief note together because mine has been a bit bumpy, a bit duvet-based. For many of us February does feel like the lowest point of the year,...
- 15 February 2020
What did you think when you saw this headline?! Do you, like me, find the descriptor ‘dangerous women’ both thrilling and vaguely unsettling? I recently attended an open session for an exciting new women’s peer leadership group She Leads Change,...
- 15 January 2020
What a year 2019 has been. Particularly for those who care deeply about clear and independent thinking it has been a year of unparalleled confusion and uncertainty, sending out chilling ripples of doubt and dismay to all of us whose...
- 17 December 2019
Meeting new people is an important part of our lives. Socially, as part of a working life, as employees and as customers, as we seek expertise and information – even inside our own families – we meet new people regularly....
- 15 November 2019
‘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