In the latest episode Kay Scorah and I talk about the idea of “getting over ourselves”. That can often sound like a rude instruction, but it’s possible to frame all learning as a process of leaving behind old ideas of who we are – ideas to which we can get rather attached.
We talk a bit about Otto Rank and I say more about him in this old post.
Embracing uncertainty and avoiding simplistic solutions
Some reflections on the chapter of my book called Hello, Darkness
What could happen if we let go of the idea that teamwork should be easy?
watching my nephew put out a fire, and the power of micromoments
This is the third episode in my series of short videos about having difficult conversations. (Part One Part Two) I talk about the Marshmallow Challenge
Anne Marie McEwan reflects on the complexity of relationships in her post, Complexify Yourself: I think that complexity takes on another dimension when people interact. We
A New Zealand School ditches the safety rules for its playground and gets some pretty amazing results. The Principal comments: The kids were motivated, busy
I’m going to run a one-day workshop on Difficult Conversations in London on February 20th. I’m doing with this my friend and collaborator Kay Scorah.
In coaching I find a lot of my work comes down to helping people find ways to deal with difficult conversations. In meetings, whatever brilliant
My friend Antony Quinn and I are running our Difficult Conversations workshop again in Cambridge. We really enjoyed the one we did in December so
Robert Paterson's Weblog: How to change your mindset – create new habits – it's the new doing that drives the new thinking Makes sense to me. And not easy to
Here’s another page from Viv‘s and my book Nothing is Written: “A baby is playing with her mother, exchanging looks and gestures and smiles. This is happening over a video
Two interesting items from David Smith‘s excellent daily feed. If you want to get productive, get disorganised. Simon Caulkin riffs on the theme of A Perfect Mess. Tim Oren on
I’m updgrading the software behind this weblog to Movable Type 3.2. Apologies if normal service is disrupted. UPDATE 12.05: MT3.2 is installed but currently individual entry pages and comments are
