My new book, revealed & ready for you. (Help, please!)
Ta da! My new book How to Work with (Almost) Anyone is ready for you I’ve been hinting and murmuring and whispering about this for a while in the newsletter,...
There are four growth phases. Which are you in?
An ecological metaphor, even if I’m covered in snow (literally) Most of us are not great at diagnosing our own growth. We tend to compare...
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How to Improve Communication Skills (Less Talk, More Curiosity)
Good communication? It’s always so tempting to think it’s sharing our pearls of wisdom, nuggets of gold, diamonds of insight, and advice hard-won on the battlefield of life. But in...
What’s in the shadows?
Adrián Villar Rojas at the Sydney Modern In the shadows On my final day in Australia, I visited the new wing of the Art Gallery of NSW, the Sydney Modern...
How to do “audience”
Four Winds near Bermagui. That’s my mum in the bottom right hand corner How to do “audience” As part of a last-minute whirlwind trip back to Australia, I went with...
Who needs you?
Heading back to Australia to see my people in my private jet a bus Who needs you? I’m on the road for the next three weeks or so, visiting some...
Slow down, you’re doing fine
On a museum wall. Slow down, you’re doing fine A friend of mine shared the photo above, and it strikes me as a radical act. Not swiping or scrolling or...
How to give credit
Me, Jill Murphy (BoC’s’ succession coach), Shannon Minifie (BoC’s CEO) How to give credit I recently got “You’re awesome and you’re doing great” made into a banner by these good...
You never know how it will work out
How it started. How it was going. How it ended up. I wonder how this will work out? I’ve just finished my three-week ceramic course, and you’re seeing the before,...
Did you hear that?
In full flow recording How to Work with (Almost) Anyone. Did you hear? This past week I’ve been busy recording the audiobook of How to Work with (Almost) Anyone. It’s...
Using old maps
A Vancouver that no longer exists. Old maps I stayed in an Over The Top Airbnb in Gastown in Vancouver recently. An old factory had been converted into lofts, and...
What’s your heart’s desire?
Bourbon St, New Orleans. What’s your heart’s desire? I’ve been immersed in the waters of psychology and human dynamics long enough that I’m now fairly fluent in trading in the...
Blowing hot and cold
Coming in to land at DIA. Blowing hot and cold A flight from New Orleans gave me this shot out of the window; sunshine on the horizon breaking through the...