“Feedback is the breakfast of champions”. Personally, we prefer a bacon butty, or perhaps a bowl of granola on a well-behaved day. But the guy who said it – a hugely successful author, speaker and businessman – makes a very good point. If you want to make it big in this life, you need feedback. […]
Over the course of our lifetime, we’ll lose 3,680 hours – or 153 days – just searching for lost things. If that’s happening at work, that’s a big dent in your bottom line. When you’re grafting, there seems to be no time to tidy up the office or discard as you go. But what if hoarding […]
This is Richard Nelson – Richie to his work colleagues. It’s a grimy Thursday morning in Slough, and Richie’s about to carry out a risk assessment in the garden centre where he works. He shrugs on his coat and lifts a clipboard. Peering up at the drizzle, Richie doesn’t feel particularly crucial to the welfare […]
In his bestselling book ‘Life Lessons from Space’ Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield describes the exhaustive preparation that goes into each mission. This preparation doesn’t just take place in the sim, in the pool, or in the lab, but round a table too. At such meetings, NASA colleagues will often scribble on little bits of card […]
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose running your own business Choose to-do lists, chaos, Missed deadlines, post-its and terrifying audits. Choose constant stress, broken sleep And customer complaints. Choose never seeing bathtimes. Choose firefighting. Choose your future. Choose life. We chose not to choose this life. We chose isCompliant. […]
“My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.” These are the words of Kenny Chesney, perhaps an unlikely commentator on the ground-breaking French ‘right to disconnect’. But – however unwittingly – the American country music singer and brief husband of Renee Zellwegger has hit the […]
January is the month when we’re all making New Year resolutions – to achieve more, finish our self-assessment on time, or even shape up our business a little. Take a brief scan through your news feeds and you’ll read everything from how to make it through ‘Blue Monday’ to tripling your productivity. However, most of […]
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” So said Laurence J Peter, a high-profile Canadian educator, perhaps best known for his management theory, the ‘Peter Principle’, published in 1969. This theory proposes that candidates tend to be selected on how well they’re doing in their current role, rather […]
What is ‘quality’? It’s a word that means so many different things to different people. To most, the Oxford dictionary definition will suffice – it’s a “general excellence of standard or level”, and it can be applied to everything from groceries to goal shots. But when the term ‘quality’ is used on site, the meaning […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, mindfulness is the new big thing. You can find courses for it everywhere online – mindfulness for well-being, mindfulness for anxiety, mindfulness for education, and – last but not least – mindfulness for business. To sci-fi geeks it’s nothing new. Those guys all discovered mindfulness the Jedi way, back in the […]
