A recent post from Robin Skidmore of Journey Further on LinkedIn got me to thinking about meetings. His post, which talked about how meetings kill productivity and meetings on Zoom kill morale was an interesting thought. True? Not true? His follow up point on how his own team had chosen
I’ve always been an advocate for speaking to your clients, and at the end of 2020, I took my own advice and conducted some of my own interviews with my handful of etc clients. The responses were insightful, humbling and gave me real clarity about understanding where my value lies
You may remember my recent video referencing a client of mine and how their creativity was sparked to write children’s stories when they were relaxed and well rested. After advocating in the last Rambling On and previous articles about the importance of remembering to revive and restore continuously – not
You may have heard the famous “two pizza rule” saying from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos —if a team can’t be fed by two pizzas, that team is too big. I began thinking a little more about this recently after stumbling across the below diagram on LinkedIn – an illustration often
A revelatory conversation with a client this week (who also okayed this post) led me to record this short video on being your authentic self. We were discussing the restorative power of the Christmas break, and how he had become incredibly creative during the time ‘off” – writing children’s stories
This is a postcard I produced for our team at agenda21 about 5 years ago. I found it in a box of old papers last year. When we were working on our values, I wanted everyone to start challenging their own attitudes about work and the way we behave. I
A thought from Michael Neill on why psychologically we find it easier to give than to ask. — There’s a two-part question I often ask people on sales and business building trainings: Would you find it easier to walk into a room and try and get a million dollars from
When Brian Norgard, Entrepreneur and Ex-CPO of Tinder tweeted ‘The most expensive way to pay for anything is with time’ the response was far-reaching. 896 retweets, over 3,000 likes and a barrage of comments. Perhaps it was the very fact the statement was left so open for interpretation that made
It has been funny (*insert your own adjective*) old year. When it came to client gifts I wanted to send something that considered the – frankly bizarre – last 12 months, but also put some focus on the future. No pressure then. On contemplation, I had a number of options
‘The message for legacy companies is clear: You must self-disrupt or gobble up your disruptors, or else face obsolescence at the hands of nimble start ups with access to more capital than ever before.” – Entrepreneur The subsequent message to startups? If you want our cash, consider profit and growth,
