Flexibility is a good thing. However... Sometimes—and about some things—we need to be inflexible: We need to have boundaries. We need to decide what we are going to accept and what we are not going …
Separating learning and evaluating
Learning something isn't the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can't evaluate some new piece of …
Are too many bosses “control freaks?”
Sir Brian Souter, highly successful co-founder of the Stagecoach bus group and always an entertaining speaker, made the front page of the Scottish broadsheet newspaper “The Herald” on Saturday with …
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Courteous co-operation and single track roads
Sometimes revisiting a simpler way of life reminds us of important things: Take single track roads with passing places, for example... (We have these in Scotland, especially on the islands, but maybe …
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Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse…
...it did. (And a note on the kindness of strangers.) Last weekend turned into a nightmare for reasons of ill health in the family and other unexpected developments. Part of dealing with that …
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Welcoming feedback?
We know we need feedback: We need other people to let us know how we are doing; to challenge our ideas; and to shake our assumptions (especially if they are out of date). That doesn’t mean we …