Mindsets & Growth
The Prestige
> “Now you’re looking for the secret.
But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not
Mindsets & Growth
The psychology of creative work and personal development
Learning Innovation
80/20 in Group Dynamics
In a group of say a dozen people, you may notice 80% of the people speak. 20%
don’t.
In
Coaching
The arcade of the multiple mirrors
Let’s take a trip to a theme park.
This theme park is expansive, multi-layered, and stretches out as far
The Tension
Pressure brings performance - or does it?
> “Pressure brings performance”
You may have heard this saying.
It’s a nice maxim, but is it just a
Mindsets & Growth
The Gallery
It’s time for your next show.
Take a moment to see in your mind’s eye a spacious, empty
Mindsets & Growth
A simple way to overcome nerves and anxiety in a first meeting
Some people are lucky enough to be assertive, confident and charming no matter
who they’re meeting with.
If you’
Battle Scars
Getting to grips with my Inner Critic
The inner critic is something we all hear from time to time.
During a recent coaching session with one of
Mindsets & Growth
Rules of the Game
The first exercise in this wonderful little cartooning and illustration book is
to draw an oval with three lines through
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The key to spreading your ideas
In last week’s episode of his Akimbo podcast, Seth Godin tells a story about
blue tit birds.
You can
The Tension
Trade-offs
A lot of life seems to be about trade-offs.
Experimentation / Focus
Enough / Perfect
Altruism / Business
Creativity / Critique
Smart / Casual
Risk
Resources
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction
This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated
and abbreviated version, with some classroom
Learning, Education & Growth
Navigating Uncertainty: Climbing the Ladder, Going out to Sea
When we are learning something new there are usually some guardrails in place.
We’re learning how to DJ in
Mindsets & Growth
The trouble with saying No
A few years ago Derek Sivers wrote a popular post called Hell Yeah, or No.
[https://sivers.org/hellyeah]
I
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Knowing what's more trouble than it's worth
A friend was recently given a cheesemaking class as a gift.
The class focused on how to make the soft
Journal
Be the person you needed when you were younger
Brad Montague of Montague Workshop.A couple of months after we moved to New York
it was time for our
The Tension
The Microscope & The Telescope
Sometimes we need to look at things through the microscope: the detail, the
hidden particles, the connective tissue, the grit,
Mindsets & Growth
Two quick tips on Trend Spotting
This quote from Beth Comstock is a nice heuristic for spotting emerging trends.
Another way of looking at this is
Mindsets & Growth
The fissures on your path
Fissure: a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or
splitting
When we think about making changes,