How to Become a Manager: Unlock Your Team’s Potential
When you’re first presented with the mantle of being a manager, you’re going to feel responsibility not just for yourself, but for other people too. For some, this feels exciting...
My favourite colour
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...
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How I get untangled from the selfishness of my own ambition
Spoiler alert: the opening pages of the new book How I get untangled from the selfishness of my own ambition There’s an insidious question that gets asked just about *now*...
How to fully commit
You’ll want to click here and watch this How to fully commit As you’re well aware, I’m two months out from the arrival of my new book, and therefore chin-deep...
Bouncing Back From Failure: How to Fail Fantastically
Failure sucks. Failure is difficult. Failure hurts. Trust me, I get it. But what if I told you that failure is also liberating, elevating… and fascinating? Hear me out. Very...
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,...
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,...