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 [...]
Read more
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 [...]
Read more
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 [...]
Read more
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.
Read more
Speed reading
With some quick techniques you can increase your reading speed and at the same time remember more of what you’ve read. You’ll still read every word – you have too. Missing out words is asking for trouble, skipping over a word like not, will change the entire meaning of the sentence. Having slowly read a report we then often forget what [...]
Read more

September 7, 2010
