Category Archives: personal development

Love, Compassion and Tolerance

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Last week I was working with a very large group and I was strongly reminded of where we are.  There are, in a sense, those who are “awake” and those who have yet to “wake up”. By “awake” I mean … Continue reading →

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“real work”

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

Most of us are emerging from our collective winter hibernation.  Most of us have spent more time than usual socialising, with our family, doing projects, doing sport, being bored, hanging out, watching TV and generally not doing our usual day … Continue reading →

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Leadership for a new era

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

We face a number a number of profound challenges as a society.  Without being exhaustive it is easy to list:  Climate change, poverty, food, energy, extremism, corruption, energy and so on. Without exception every one of these challenges is the … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Belonging

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

One of our core drivers as humans is to feel a sense of  self worth.  This drives all sorts of behaviours from the highly functional to highly dysfunctional.  Part of self worth for most of us is to have a … Continue reading →

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Don’t try so hard

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

It is a hard lesson to learn and one that I continue to take my time getting right.  Perhaps the “must try harder” message at school penetrated too deeply? In so many areas of life; love, business, sport or socially, … Continue reading →

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What do you want to be when you grow up, John Lennon?

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They … Continue reading →

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Stand for something

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

I had a conversation last week that astonished me.  I had it patiently explained to me that it was better to let kids endure aggressive teachers than to do something about it, because relationships with aggressive people are a fact … Continue reading →

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Did you choose to live this way?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Who leads your life? I mean who is in the lead in the life that you are living? Is it you? Too many of us get stuck in the rut of other people’s expectations or on the hamster wheel of … Continue reading →

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Doing the Right Thing

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

Our son, Casper, is 6.  He talks earnestly about “catching baddies”.  He has a pretty black and white view of baddies and the appropriate treatment for them.  When he says this I ask him “how can you tell who the … Continue reading →

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The Lesson of the Keyboard

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

I was struck last week when I saw a colleague pecking away, very quickly, with two fingers on his computer keyboard.  I asked him about it and he told me that he had recently taken a course where he had … Continue reading →

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