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Personal Growth and Development: Always Open to Learning
When the going gets tough, the wise are open to learning
Admitting you do not know is not weakness. It is the honesty growth is founded on
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When the Going gets Tough? Show Your Vulnerability to Build Relations of Substance.
When the Going gets Tough? Show Your Vulnerability to Build Relations of Substance. Steps toward Stoicism? The old adage runs, when the going gets tough, the tough get going – Very true, and such situations show a particular style of leadership. But is it the only...
When One Door Closes, Another Opens? – What Bollocks?
More than ever, we seem to enjoy the pithy one liner with the positive implications. On all social media, personal or professional, we witness people, often with grandiose titles for the jobs they do, posting the one liner and inferring it has far deeper meaning...
Virtually All of Us will Lead
Virtually All of Us will Lead Right circumstances? All of us can, must, become leaders Crook 2018 Built on the quality input of Henley Management School Cohort 1997 There is tremendous hyperbole generated regarding leadership as we hear of panacea solutions to make us...
Twenty Years on from the Annus horribilis Day Trip Ends Night One
Twenty Years on from the Annus horribilis Day Trip Ends Night One Queen Elizabeth described 1997 as an annus horribilis, horrible year, following the death of Princess Diana and several other events. Events where public relations were rotten adding to the profound...
Trees and Churches – Humans, Governance and being able to live Socially
Trees and Churches – Humans, Governance and being able to live Socially England, the rural beauties mixed with deliberate actions to leave verges growing and paths overgrown. Cycling the highways and running the byways, the abundance of nature is apparent. But are the...
The Thing to Do
The thing to do to instigate Real Life Changes Just Cuss Yourself (contains a profanity) It comes, as something of a wrench to walk away from what is comfortable. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe, next week looks better. Well, maybe. Nowadays, tremendous amounts of information...
The Smell of Crime and carrying a Killer Runga
Hakuna Matata? The Smell of Crime when carrying a Killer Rungu Early this morning, shaken awake by noise from downstairs bringing me back from the Land of Nod where sweet dreams had not been forthcoming, I went downstairs with trepidation; as I had the last two...
Stillness can be Moving – The Friends’ House London
In this age where quotes abound as people endlessly trawl the internet, I am re-introducing myself to the rare pleasure of a few moments of stillness in an otherwise hustling and bustling London. Sitting in a small courtyard in the Quaker House on Euston Road, the...
Stability and Fragility – What Form for Future Governance
What Form for Future Governance? Cones of Sand or Sand Castles? Lessons from the Beach Stability and Fragility Some years ago, on a beach, making a programme for the BBC, Brian Cox, he of ‘Everything that can Happen does Happen’ fame, had a sand castle and a pile of...
Solutions or Product?
Shelly Palmer – Middle Management Errors Vendors Love Great set of lessons along the age old line of finding solutions rather than buying product. On specifications, I returned to Africa to work in the Rwanda Genocide crisis of 1994, millions of people displaced...