On Busyness and Time Management
“Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.”- Antoine De Saint-Exupéry “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.”- William of Occam “Simplify. Simplify”- Henry David Thoreau “The nature of creativity is to make space for...
What Else Is Happening?
We’ve all got them. That one person or that group of people that we find difficult. [1] I’ve written before about how people have a “right thing” and how taking others’ perspectives can help you understand motives. What if we were to take it one step further?...
What’s The Question?
If you peruse the business literature, or even just business posts on social media, you will eventually come across the phenomenon of “meeting bashing”. It seems no-one likes a meeting and every commentator has a three, four or five-step process to address...
You Can’t Influence The Organisation
In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari talks about how we, as human beings, have invented social constructs so that we can create order and certainty for ourselves. We have called these social constructs 'companies' and 'organisations'. The problem is that these...
How to listen to feedback
Consider the following scenario … A close colleague comes to you and asks for feedback. “Give it to me straight” they say. So you do. Far from being grateful they get defensive. You can see it in their body language. You can hear it in their response...
You can’t do everything.
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."- Herbert Simon There are a lot of highly successful people out there that have achieved great things in their fields of endeavour. For each one, there is someone else who wants to interview and deconstruct them...
Do you really need to say “need”?
The word ‘need’ comes up quite a lot I conversation with my clients. When it does it is usually followed by the question, “What would happen if you didn’t meet that ‘need’?” Most of the time, after some discussion, we discover meeting that specific ‘need’ is not a matter of life and death.
What Does The System Reward?
For those who watched Insiders on Sunday, 14 Jul 19, you may have seen a brief discussion on Australian federal politicians’ Electoral Allowance. This is an allowance of between $32k and $46k for sitting members of parliament to spend in their electorate as a...
The Right Thing.
“I would rather work with you on the one thing we agree on than fight with you over the nine things we disagree on.”- Cory Booker, U.S. Senator No-one comes to work each day to make your life hell. (Well, almost no-one. Granted there are a few psychopaths out there...