How to deal with your mistakes

How to deal with your mistakes

We’ve discussed before about creating disciplines for becoming ever more authentic and completely yourself. Why then would you ever make a mistake again? Because we all fall short of ideal behaviour, and forget to choose to be great and behave well on a daily...
The power of choice

The power of choice

The next time you’re juggling options – which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue – consider the action of Xiang Yu, a Chinese general who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in...
Why does everything end up on my desk?

Why does everything end up on my desk?

As a leader, of an informal group, a virtual or actual team, a whole business or a large organisation, how much do you understand about how your ‘organisation’ works? Not its finances, its published structure, its production cycle – what we’re focusing on here...
The virtuous circle of connection

The virtuous circle of connection

Beverly Landais discusses the concept that there can be a virtuous circle of connection between people and an organisation, where peak performance can be reached and maintained for longer. We all want to be noticed. People crave recognition and appreciation. In a...