Bealach na Ba
They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. Last week I drove up Bealach na Ba, the famed granddaddy of bealachs up here in Scotland. Formerly used as a cattle drover’s road (ba is Gaelic for cattle), it’s notoriously winding, the greatest road climb in the UK, and beloved of shows like Top Gear and so […]
Values are…
Think, if you will, of a huge, wall-filling meta-Venn diagram here at orangecairns HQ. In this nobly mathematical picture, the central overlapping sweet spot at the core of our ongoing journey through culture, leadership and purpose is values. Right there in the middle, at the heart and base of all three areas. Paint this bit […]
A cairn a day
A short video on how cairns can be waymarkers, destinations, reflection spaces, destination points, and much else – all at the same time
This is where I am
Some learning reframes… This is where I am NOT where I was – so I will focus on the learning that has brought me here This is where I am NOT where I will be – so I will focus on learning well in the here and now This is where I am NOT where […]
Finding the love
What do you love doing? For as the philosophers have put it so clearly over the years, It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it Bananarama (and others) It was a theme underlined by the strengths advocate Marcus Buckingham at the recent WBECS Pre-Summit. The content of his slot was taken […]
A river runs through it
There was once a time and a place, and in that time and in that place, a young woman approached her older, craggier mentor. If it helps, let’s imagine the mentor lived in a cave on a mountainside. He may even have had a white beard. “I don’t know what to do,” the woman immediately […]
Work in progress
Let’s get the very un-shy elephant in the room out of the way. It’s a cliché – and a truly banal one at that – beloved of coaches and gurus everywhere. Life is a journey. Now we’ve established that this isn’t the first or last time we’ll hear this nugget of wisdom, let’s celebrate the […]
No Regrets? Really?
It’s hard to think of another behavioural scientist out there who nails it time after time with such great lines as, “Human beings are both seasoned time travellers and skilled fabulists.” Step forward, Dan Pink, and take a bow. His Drive has long been a book I’ve recommended ad nauseam to all and sundry, and […]
