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WHAT HAPPENS AFTER A COURSE – PART ONE
Some years ago, I was lucky enough to attend a workshop by Dan Millman – teacher and author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Towards the end, he was asked a question by one of the participants: ‘Dan, I leave workshops like this so inspired and full of energy and with the best of [...]
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW?
Richard Holmes, in his book Age of Wonder, describes how the young scientist Humphry Davy hoped to seek a cure for tuberculosis. Looking to improve respiration, he tried inhaling a variety of different gases, eventually making his way to nitrous oxide. Laughing gas. The nitrous oxide failed to have an impact on the health of [...]
Three minutes of…?
So I said to my client: “OK I’ve known you all a while now, I’ve been observing how you work together. I’ve heard what you have to say about the past, and what you say you want to create in the future. And I have a suggestion for you. I have an idea, which I [...]
The Real World
I love Columbo movies. I’ve just finished watching one this afternoon, whilst waiting for the Volcano in Iceland to stop reminding us about who really runs things around here… I love Columbo movies and I love Sherlock Holmes stories. I have all of those in text, all of them as audiobooks and most of them [...]
THE RESTAURANT REVIEW: the limits of organizational surveys
So here’s the restaurant and here’s the food and here’s the service and in a little while I am going to tell you what I think about them. I am going to give you my opinion. And because I am a well-intentioned person, I am going to give you my best suggestions for what the [...]
The Meaning of Work
One of the consequences of writing about themes such as meaning and purpose at work is that you are reminded to keep questioning your own work’s impact. Because generating a certainty that ‘my work has meaning and serves the world’ has to be balanced every so often with an inquiry into ‘what good does it [...]
Nature “thrilled”
I was hearing about a brand today whose relaunch is going to be based on the best of Science and Nature. I was thinking Nature must be very excited about that.
ADVICE ON LOVE – HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Although my office is still in the very wonderful Fort Collins, my family and I now live in Loveland, a small town 15 miles South of FC. Just as children can send their Christmas Lists and have them postmarked The North Pole, so too people apparently send their Valentine’s Cards via Loveland so that they [...]
Sometimes, life is a 1960s’ TV series
Just experienced number 786th on my list of “1000 Weird Things that Happened to Me” Having breakfast in the restaurant of the Zurich Airport Hilton, and suddenly recognizing that the music being played over the sound system is the theme music to “Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)”. I realize as I write this that not many [...]
HOW DO YOU RESPOND?
I worked this week with the amazing Craig Zablocki (www.craigzablocki.com) to develop the keynote talk that I’ll be offering in the coming year to support From Making a Living to Creating a Life. Having spent most of the last 20 years helping others with their communication, it is great to be on the receiving end. [...]
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