Today I am in London, on an unusually hot and sunny day. I am sitting in Russell Square in the heart of Bloomsbury. A quick google tells me just some of the famous people who have lived here. So… Virginia Woolf, Charles Darwin , JM Barrie, JM Keynes and WB Yeats for example. Can I … Read more
I’m travelling with work – on a train, using the time productively looking at videos and catching up with online reading. Thinking about a quote from Benjamin Zander: “My job is to awaken possibility in others” In that quote is a real tension in the role of leadership. How to ensure that the possibility of … Read more
I came across this from an interview with David Whyte (a poet who has worked extensively in the corporate world). He was being interviewed by Michael Lerner for The New School podcast at Commonweal: “The cure for exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s wholeheartedness. We feel exhaustion when we are not doing what we are in this … Read more
… And so we reach the 5th of 8 posts about Core Values in the workplace. So far, we have looked at the values of Altruism, Integrity and Co-Creation. This post looks at Inclusivity. From the first Impact Report on our work, there was the recognition that ensuring people are involved and included is a … Read more
Seth’s Blog: Gripped in a free frenzy (or focused on scarcity and value). This post begins with a link to a short piece on Seth Godin’s blog. I’ve been reading him for years now – online and the books he produces. In this post he is talking about the problem with free. Now, this is … Read more
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with music and sounds to see if I can make backing tracks over which I can then record a poem. The poems I am using are from a sequence I am still writing about a character called Blue. I have been writing about this character for … Read more
I am just back from a weekend retreat. The retreat was actually a week long retreat, but we could only manage to be there for the weekend. It was still an incredibly valuable experience – and I use the word valuable with mindfulness. Over the last couple of months I have been exploring ways to … Read more
This is the fourth post in a series of eight, looking at Core Values in the workplace. The first post was a general introduction explaining where the core values of the team that I lead were derived from. In the last two posts I described the core values of Altruism and Integrity. Here I will … Read more
Throughout March the team has been involved in another outing for the Creative Learning work which I have mentioned before in this blog (go ahead, search for Creative Learning and you’ll find the other posts). We have had two days of workshops – four different techniques in total. These were delivered by a team of … Read more
This is the third post in a series of eight, looking at Core Values in the workplace. The first post was a general introduction explaining where the core values were derived from. In the last post I described the first core value of Altruism. Here I will look at the role of Integrity. As before, … Read more