A fav photo from the photo shoot. My favourite colour It’s purple. It’s no accident that this is one of the four core colours of...
People don’t leave bad companies. They leave bad managers. They leave mediocre communication, poor decision-making, micromanagement, favoritism, narcissism, and chasms of empathy. Nobody wants to be that manager. But in...
Marcella and me, with the front yard display twinkling in the background Light it up Marcella and I spend the first week of December in Nova Scotia, her home province....
Here’s something you’ll never hear anyone say – “I just feel too appreciated at work.” There’s a reason for that. People love feeling seen, heard, acknowledged, and that their hard...
Imagine this… you’ve just completed a personality test, and your results have been generated by the algorithm. Maybe it was Myers-Briggs, or DISC, or perhaps StrengthsFinder. You’re delighted with the...
I remember this moment clearly. I was sitting in a cubicle. Beige. One of the fluorescent light tubes was buzz-humming. There was a weird stain on the ceiling tile, a...
My Oscar moment The trophy isn’t the real win (although it’s very nice ????) Earlier this month, I won the “Marshall Goldsmith Award for Coaching & Mentoring” at Thinkers50. This...
Take yourself back to a moment when you were working on a project where you worked alongside great people. Perhaps it was something to do with work, perhaps you were...
Tens only Removing the 9.9s One of my big things for next year is to begin working on a new book. What! Another book?! I know, I know, I know....
Feedback. For most of us, it’s a toss-up on what’s harder – Giving it. Or getting it. We’ve all had moments when the feedback we’ve received has felt wrong, personal,...
Trust is where it all starts You might be an ambitious, strategic, and brilliant leader, but if your people don’t trust you – or you don’t trust them – you’ll...
Black Mountain Tower, Canberra’s bearing point Three ways to get your bearings (Ha! I’d forgotten that the newsletter section before the article was titled “take your bearings” … so clearly,...
We’ve all been there – moments when we thought we were on the same page with someone, only to discover that we were not only on different pages but reading...
