Conflict

In praise of conflict

I recently heard a friend saying that they had been a course. I am all for self-development so I asked what it was about, “Minimising conflict in your team” was the reply. This really concerned me. If the intention was to minimise conflict, then presumably the ultimate aim would be to eliminate conflict. Conflict is vital to [...]

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You know what you know, don’t you?

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know. For me this is a great quote, just a [...]

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Team player or terrorist?

Which one are you? Highly committed and bursting with energy the players are the ones we all want working for us and with us. These are the ones that we, hopefully recruit, so what turns them into spectators, good guys who simply lack motivation. Or worse into corpses, the description is unfortunate though probably not [...]

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Performing well or burning out?

Learn to recognise where you are on the chart, and then admit it, if only to yourself. Aim to move from the creative calm zone to fatigue, and then back to creative calm.

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Remembering Steve Jobs

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you [...]

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Apollinaire Said

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed And they flew.

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300 people helped

My blog has passed 3000 hits. I am delighted. OK, I know some blogs get that and more per day – but this is my blog. If over 3000 people have read one or more of these blog posts, even if only 10% of visitors get some help from it; then I have helped some 300 [...]

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How happy have you decided to be?

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” This sounds as if it could be an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) expression but it’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln. I guess much is not new, it’s just repackaged! Still a great quote.

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Would Shakespeare have tweeted?

Is social media destroying the old style media empires based on printed paper? Seth Godin provides this intriguing and thought provoking argument where he highlights that Shakespeare got no royalties. Indeed this is a key reason for his popularity. The idea of Shakespeare using social media does appeal:  ”Hamlet To be or not to be? #suicide” or [...]

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