It occurred to me some time ago that writing is different to writing in the workplace/writing for business. For a start, no one will ever compliment you on your character development or suspenseful cliff hangers when giving an update on a project. There are no awards for best piece of workplace fiction, although I’m sure Read more

What do we do with a recipe – it tells us the ingredients, the timings and the actions required to produce an end result. How often do we go full steam ahead without a recipe of our own before we act? We don’t think about the tools needed, the time it will take and what Read more

It’s pretty easy to doubt other people’s outlandish stories. We’d ask for proof if it was something extreme. And yet – we listen to the stories we tell ourselves and believe it without any proof. This works both ways – in arrogance and when we undermine ourselves. “I’m not any good at a, b, c Read more

Kanban is Japanese for sign or billboard. It’s success and popularity in manufacturing, logistics and project management circles has led to it being implemented across various industries. What does a sign do? It gives you information to advise or direct. I remember several years ago seeing someone complete a SWOT analysis on a department. The Read more

There is always someone with more than us out there. Someone with more money, a bigger home, a nicer car, more talent, more fame. Often this is used to make us feel pretty shitty about ourselves (see most lifestyle magazines). We don’t feel grateful because look what we don’t have?! WAIT a second – compare Read more

I saw a fridge magnet several years ago. It was roughly along the lines of not knowing when you married Mr. Right that their first name was always. Fridge magnets marketed at women aside, it does have a point. We all like to be right or at least feel like we’re right most of the Read more

What can you learn from a cartoon game character? Mario faces challenges and hardships in his pursuit of saving the Princess and saving the day. Guess what? Mario can’t save anyone if he doesn’t move forward and take the occasional leap. In most video games you’ll be challenged and sometimes you’ll fall down and have to Read more

We seem to treat many things in our lives as definable with an end point. We’ve all met someone personally and professionally who claimed or acted like they had all the answers. It’s easy with age, experience, education and awards to start to buy in to our own bullshit and the story we tell ourselves Read more

“we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca Comparatively we live in a fairly blessed time in human history. The average Joe on the street in most countries has more freedom and options available to them, on the whole, than they did in 1920 or 1820. We think of fear as “being afraid” Read more