It’s striking how often middle level to senior people in organisations say they doubt the ordinary folk will feel safe speaking frankly about the business and what they see needs attention in front of …
How others see us, and what to do about it
How others see us is very important in determining our results and what happens in our lives. Many factors affect that, of course: Our track record and so on. However, a big part of it is how we see …
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Getting over something
How far do you need to go into the future before the present will seem like the past? When we’re struggling to get over some incident or upset, I find it can be a great help to think forward into the …
Yes and no
To paraphrase 13th century poet, Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi... “Out beyond ideas of yes and no, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Asking a closed question always seemed to me a clumsy way of …
The truest guide to a big decision: Thinking, feeling or knowing?
Should we make big decisions based on what we think or what we feel? Should we let our heart rule our head or vice versa? In fact... The truest guide is what we know—what our whole body tells us—our …
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Ian Paisley and the influence of personal change
If Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness can become best buddies, surely just about anyone can be reconciled... It seems to me Ian Paisley is an interesting example of how changing yourself changes the …
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