Mapping Our Purpose REALM – Paperback
I’m super-proud to be launching today the paperback version of my book Mapping Our Purpose REALM – The Tribe of the Cowbells. Super-proud and humbled too to hear what some of the early reviewers have said about it already. I’m blessed by some truly wonderful people around me. The book comes out of all the […]
Who said anything about happiness?
What do happiness and love have in common? They’re both by-products. Yup, cold and harsh, but in business – if these could be truly measured in the first place – they’d call them lagging indicators at best. Working on our life purpose, on our meaningful way forward, on living fully…all of these may well bring […]
Flex those muscles
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor… Thankfully there’s a little more variety these days. Variety? Flux is a better word. The big consultancies all predict vastly different careers landscapes within the next decade, let alone thereafter. Just for starters, PwC divides roles into red, yellow, green and blue work worlds, while McKinsey advocates fo
What’s to lose?
Anyone suffering from FOMO? The Great Resignation. Quiet Quitting. The Great Reshuffle. The Big Quit… Seems like everyone’s jacking it in and going off to do something far more interesting. Even British prime ministers are doing it. And there are lots of column inches out there detailing what’s behind it all, be it burnout, dissatisfaction, [&h
Who’s on our A-Team?
OK, hands up, I watched the A-Team when I was a kid. BA, Face, Murdock, Hannibal….I love it when a plan comes together… All that good stuff. Not exactly Star Trek in boldly exploring issues or plotlines, but then again no pretences about it either. And in the years since, it’s always been interesting to […]
Right Here, Right Now
Or, to put it another way… There is never anything but the present. Wow, Fat Boy Slim and Alan Watts in the same breath. What could have brought about such a glorious juxtaposition? Purpose. Call it what you will, but there’s undeniably a lot of it around these days. And condensing things into a pithy My […]
Let’s talk values
There’s a great icebreaker activity which builds up pieces of string like a cat’s cradle from one person to another to however many are in the group. It’s a quick and easy way of demonstrating systems thinking and how everything’s interconnected. This lattice of bonds can talk on many different levels, including our values. That […]