Leadership

Your job is a temporary station that forms a small part of your life. If it isn’t working for you, change it.

ChatGPT is the latest AI tool to break the internet. Learn how to beat AI and stop it stealing your job by asking better questions.

Use your core values to make tricky decisions and improve how you feel about your life.

Take a personal inventory of where you’re spending your time, to eliminate the things that threaten your personal or professional peace.

Stop pointing fingers at people when you talk about change and focus on the systems that need shifting instead.

Being nice is a dangerous game. Taken too far, we damage relationships, jeopardise safety, perpetrate inequality and shortchange our impact.

There is no escaping problems, but you can use them as tools for learning, development, relationships, growth, service and leadership.

The potential for outrage is high right now. How can you have controversial conversations without descending into conflict?

Making intentional choices about what is your responsibility, and what isn’t, means being OK with upsetting people.

Create new coping strategies that move you forward, and stop hanging on to the past.

The more information we have access to, the greater our need for shared experiences. Facilitate meaning, not learning.

Clarity is not the opposite of confusion – it’s on the other side. Here’s 5 important things you should know about clarity.

Struggling to trust your teams to get on and do a good job? Here’s three things you can do to make delegation easier.

We’re all so busy – but what are we masking with those choices? Go beyond busy and ask yourself some scary questions.

There are 17 days until Christmas. The way I see it, you’ve got two options…

You’ll be better at solving problems if you can put work into perspective.

Constant dissatisfaction and a push for improvement are the symptoms of a person who cares a lot and is working hard. It doesn’t mean you’re doomed to keep feeling like that, just that you’ve got new skills to learn now, because what got you here isn’t going to get you there. It might be time to lev

Sometimes we have to make our own endings, to make space for new things.

We should always be a beginner at something. When we’re uncomfortably stupid about something new, we grow.

New research suggests from now on, business growth will be driven by data, brand, reputation, strategy and content.

It’s hard to take feedback when we take it personally. It’s hard to change our opinion when our identity is attached to it. It’s hard to change who we vote for, what job we do, or how we parent our kids if we’ve used that to define ourselves.

Life would be easier without bosses, colleagues and customers. Except… we wouldn’t have a job. People are the problem, but they’re also the point.

The reason we get together is to make things happen outside of the meeting. To build understanding, shape choices and make decisions that will get the wheels of progress turning. If we’re wasting time, we’re also wasting energy, money and opportunity – none of which is OK.

All good decision processes include action.

The company you keep matters. Target your networking to people who will help you grow.

If you’re worried about your job, your business or your future, stop building technical skills. There’s always a market for uncertainty.

Life is full of worries. Reduce your anxiety by focusing on upgrading your worries, rather than getting rid of them.

Stop avoiding the important questions in your life and let go of your addictions.

If you’re wondering how to become a CEO, think about the outcome you want – not just the achievement.

How to use crisis and challenges to develop new skills for the future.

Swapping out the occasional “I have to” for an “I choose to” or “I’m learning to” can have a transformational effect on the way we think about our situation. I mean, it’s happening anyway, so… why not?

Don’t stop growing and changing.. There’s always a way forward, it’s time to get unstuck.

Could we maybe diagnose different patterns of behaviour and thinking based on the language people use?

What are you still telling yourself that you don’t need to? Can you speak to someone else with a different story?

This week, we’re talking about perspective – do you need to zoom out?

This week, we’re talking about performance – are you working too hard?

This week, we’re talking about what flexibility is all about

This week, we’re talking about how to treat ourselves as well as we treat others.

How can we be kind to others, when it doesn’t come naturally?

Everyone makes mistakes, especially when they’re doing something worthwhile. It’s what you do next that counts. Here’s how to learn from your mistakes.

Living a peaceful, meaningful life means giving your values some legs. Enter: boundaries.

You can take charge of your life by tackling these ten things.

It’s not change that’s hard. It’s what it represents.

As Henry David Thoreau wrote: ‘Things do not change; we change.’

Expecting to do important, different work inside the same constraints, environments and attitudes is a fools game.

You don’t need to worry about goals – think about your identity instead. What identity do you need to take on to build lasting change?

Nothing important happens by accident. Minutiae is the mint plant of your task garden.

So much of what we do isn’t seen, isn’t asked for and isn’t valued. I’m calling time on the invisible list.

How to get people interested in your change movement.

There is a right and a wrong way to handle project failures – one builds trust, the other breeds resentment. Move on from project failure the right way.

Focus on a single issue or behaviour to create better habits faster.

Amidst the festive chaos, I reckon this is the time to commit to calm. Are you with me?

I’m going to let you in on a secret: people aren’t actually afraid of change…. they’re afraid of loss.

Do you think it’s OK to fail? What about your teams, do they feel able to?

Smart people and organisations tend to know what to do – they need to know what to stop. What got you here won’t get you there.