The one person you should be in a committed relationship with
When asked if he was dating anyone, a comedian said [...]
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12, 2015
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12, 2015
Are you changing the world?
Are you working on something that can change the world? [...]
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12, 2015
The problem with credentials
Most of us learned that degrees are good things; that having [...]
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11, 2015
Do you have integrity?
The term integrity is commonly used as a standard of [...]
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11, 2015
Why grown ups behave like kids
At a friend’s place not too long ago a father [...]
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11, 2015
Do you work “too much”?
Work life balance is a flawed concept in the same [...]
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11, 2015
Why work-life balance is silly
Work life balance is the holy grail of modern existence. [...]
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10, 2015
Why you should start handwriting again
We’re used to technology growing up to eat its parents [...]
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09, 2015
Why leadership is not about being right
One of Amazon’s Leadership Principles states that leaders “Are Right, [...]
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09, 2015
What to do when you’re misunderstood
It feels terrible to be mis-understood; when something as clear [...]
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09, 2015
The one job of a parent
Almost every time I’ve listened to the stories of someone [...]
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09, 2015
Paragons of ageing
Last week’s post was about how we age; our choice [...]
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08, 2015
You have a choice about ageing
One reason no one wants to age is that we [...]
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08, 2015
Slavery 2.0
Slavery didn’t end. But of course you know that. The [...]
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08, 2015
Making practice sexy
Imagine how we could perform in art, sport and career [...]
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08, 2015
Imagination practice
Do you still use your imagination? My bet is: not [...]
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07, 2015
The good thing about a bad boss
If you work, sooner or later, you’ll have a bad [...]
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07, 2015
Robots taking our jobs; not a bad thing
Most everyone thinks about robots taking our jobs as a [...]
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07, 2015
The real reason to forgive
When people talk about forgiveness it's often in a religious [...]
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07, 2015
Friend or Foe: Choose!
In your daily encounters, which would you prefer to make? [...]
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06, 2015
Are you high cost?
We don’t usually think of cost when applied to people, [...]
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06, 2015
Controlling your Blame Reflex
Most of us are quick to assign blame. It’s like [...]
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06, 2015
What we can all learn from Bruce Jenner
I watched the Bruce Jenner Dianne Sawyer’s interview, not out [...]
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06, 2015
Commit to the practice, not the objective
There is nothing wrong with failing as long as you [...]
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05, 2015
The purpose of Employee Engagement
Whenever I think Employee Engagement (EE) has already become another [...]
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05, 2015
Are you a NO or a YES?
How many things are you a "NO" to? A bad [...]
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05, 2015
What’s on your distraction buffet?
You probably have your favourite distractors—the time wasters that you [...]
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05, 2015
Your Distraction Buffet
Ever spend a day being really busy, doing lots of [...]
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05, 2015
Which would you prefer: to be liked or feared?
You might be familiar with the Machiavellian position that it’s [...]
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04, 2015
“This (your work) is shit!”
If Steve Jobs’ had a show like Donald Trump’s "The [...]
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04, 2015
Look for passion first
Trying to ignite passion in people who don’t have it [...]
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04, 2015
Take responsibility, don’t apologise
An apology is the best way to heal the relationship [...]
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03, 2015
Why you need enemies
Our instinct is to avoid making enemies; to have everyone [...]
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03, 2015
The tragedy of real-life drama
We like drama in books and movies because it excites [...]
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02, 2015
Happiness at work should not be your goal
Happy good, unhappy bad. Not too many people will challenge [...]
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02, 2015
Do you do important work?
There was a scene in “The Imitation Game” when the [...]
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01, 2015
Why we must all be entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are the marines of business. Figuratively speaking, they take [...]
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01, 2015
Ten signs of a bad boss
Many bad bosses are nice people, but they all create [...]
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01, 2015
A 2015 wish
As we leave 2014 wondering things like: what will the [...]
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12, 2014
Should you or shouldn’t you follow your passion?
If you keep up with the literature you now ‘know’ [...]
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10, 2014
What are you failing at?
Failure is nature’s way of preparing you for success. And [...]
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10, 2014
The S.T.U.P.I.D. test
We’ve all heard of the SMART goal acronym. Tom [...]
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09, 2014
Freedom at Work
How'd you like to take as much vacation as you [...]
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09, 2014
The opposite of work is ….?
If you said ‘play’ you’d be in the majority. And [...]
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09, 2014
How work is like diet and exercise
Just like the food you eat could be bad for [...]
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08, 2014
Don’t ever let your age stop you
Of the three life stage descriptors —young, middle-aged, old—only young [...]
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08, 2014
Emotional labour — the source of service
Someone recounted an unkind incident to me recently. A govt [...]
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08, 2014
The key to wanting to go to work every day
Why is it that so many workers seem to exist as [...]
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08, 2014
Why we don’t teach forgiveness
How could it be that we don’t actively practice forgiveness? [...]
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07, 2014
Photography as metaphor for how you look at life
How you look at your life affects how you feel [...]