Better with age
If you’re building skills, assets and relationships, making a generous contribution, doing work that matters for people who care… You should expect to get better… Read More »Better with age
Bringing people with you
Conference: small stages
Good conferences create a range of stages for members of the cohort to try things out on. Workshops, seminars and meetings happening alongside the keynote… Read More »Conference: small stages
Attention hours
We often focus on the attention economy as it relates to life online, but it’s a helpful lens for thinking about the rest of our… Read More »Attention hours
Peter Drucker on performance appraisals
Effective executives usually work out their own unique form of performance appraisal. It starts out with a statement of the major contributions expected from a… Read More »Peter Drucker on performance appraisals
Hard conversations
…aren’t supposed to be easy. The person you need to have the conversation with might be a peer, a friend, a long-term colleague. The conversations… Read More »Hard conversations
Joseph Conrad on art, writing and reaching your audience
All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the… Read More »Joseph Conrad on art, writing and reaching your audience
Seth Godin on leadership, generosity and charisma
You can say that charisma makes you a leader, but I believe that leading gives you charisma. And that changes everything: that you gain charisma… Read More »Seth Godin on leadership, generosity and charisma
Value: more of more?
Make something useful For lots of people Capture some of that value so that you can do it again The more useful what you do… Read More »Value: more of more?
Canon: fences and trampolines
I’ve just spent a thoroughly enjoyable day at the first Jakarta International Literary Festival. I sat in on two Symposiums*: The Southern Common Themes Dilemma,… Read More »Canon: fences and trampolines
Horse to water
If a horse is thirsty, if they know that water will help, and if they trust you, then all you need to say is “There’s… Read More »Horse to water