Mar 4, 2019 | Career development, Life Skills
What’s the point of your job? No, seriously, what is the point? How does it make a difference to anything? Why should anyone care? I have asked this question of many of the mid career employees I work with on leadership training programmes, and I can confidently...
Oct 28, 2018 | Change, Life Skills
When my wife Charlotte died suddenly and unexpectedly at Easter my auto reflex kicked in. My busyness gene went into overdrive, and I turned into even more of a whirling dervish than usual. Some might say that over the next six months my list of achievements was...
May 18, 2018 | Life Skills
On Easter Saturday morning our alarm went off as usual at 6 am, and I knew something was wrong because my wife didn’t turn it off. It took about ten minutes for me to fully register that this was because she was dead. Charlotte had suffered a pulmonary...
Feb 20, 2018 | Communication, Life Skills
Oh no! I have woken up to a startling and somewhat terrifying realisation. I think I have forgotten how to read. Not totally, of course, but as a result of reading this fantastic article by Michael Harris, I, like him, recognise that I have slipped without noticing...
Jan 16, 2018 | Life Skills
I’m writing a book. You may well know that by now. It’s the most creative and stimulating project I have worked on for several years, and at the same time the most exhausting. This partly explains why you haven’t heard from me on the Blog since...
Dec 16, 2016 | Change, Life Skills, Personality types
Last Saturday I had dinner with a couple who have moved into the village recently. They have a bitch working cocker spaniel who has become our dog Ross’ girlfriend, so we already have plenty to talk about. Ben is a doctor, and we found ourselves talking about...
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