When it comes to stimulating change in other people, how challenging can we be? How far and fast can we push? How can we best tell when we need to back off? Well, of course, it depends... It …
The necessary pest
How do you tell the difference between the troublemaker and the necessary pest? The thing is... We don’t have all the answers. We need other people to tell us when we’ve over-looked something, or …
An intervention needs to be an intervention
It takes a certain intensity to make something different happen. Merely exposing people to new ideas probably isn’t going to be enough if the hoped-for change is in any way an uncomfortable or …
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So you survived the recession…
So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of …
Holding back evolution
Sometimes it’s tempting to try and hold back the process of change—we may think we are strong enough to hold it at bay. We may even be successful for a time. The trouble is... The forces of …
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 …