There's an old business story about a cookie factory owner. His company was making millions of cookies and was very profitable. However, his board was always asking for more profits. One day the cookie factory owner thought of a great idea! "What if we got rid of 1 of the 13 spices we put in… Continue reading I Can Guarantee Something That Will Never Ever Change And It’s Where To Find All The Opportunities.
Don’t Say That!
"I stink, therefore I tram." I spent some time living in Prague, Czech Republic. The summers would get really hot and I couldn't help but notice that the Czechs had a strange aversion to deodorants. This would become painfully obvious when riding the public trams. I wasn't the only person that noticed this, but of… Continue reading Don’t Say That!
If It Looks & Swims & Quacks Like A Duck, It Might Not Be A Duck
I was shocked at what the pyramids looked like up close when I went to Egypt. I always thought that they'd be smooth* on the outside. But when I got up close to them they were made of very large stones. Pyramids of Giza More recently I found out that many of the Greek and… Continue reading If It Looks & Swims & Quacks Like A Duck, It Might Not Be A Duck
Is Someone Getting The Best Of You?
True story. I was once working in a hospital that was desperately short of doctors to cover the night shift. The hospital somehow managed to find a senior doctor to cover one of the night shifts to oversee the work of the junior doctors, admit new patients and ensure patients were safe over night. Usually… Continue reading Is Someone Getting The Best Of You?
How To Measure Your Life
It is unusual how when you insist on measuring something, you often end up measuring what actually doesn't matter. Often the thing you end up measuring is a distant relative of something meaningful. Modern medicine is pretty incredible. We can stick a tube down your air pipe and artificially ventilate you, we can keep your… Continue reading How To Measure Your Life
Do You Have An Eggshell Skull?
In common law there is a well-known rule called the Eggshell Skull rule. Say you are having an argument with your friend. The argument starts to escalate and out of frustration you grab your mobile phone, throw it in your friends general direction and he gets hit on his head. You didn't know it,… Continue reading Do You Have An Eggshell Skull?
What Ever Happened To Belle & The Beast?
Beauty and the Beast is probably my favourite Disney movie of all time. The story of how love and doing the right thing can overcome any adversary is a timeless story. The end of the story where Belle and the now human-again Prince are dancing in front of their friends and family is the classic… Continue reading What Ever Happened To Belle & The Beast?
Sometimes To Make A Difference You Just Need To Ask “Are You OK?”
A friend once told me a story about a flight she was on. She works as part of the cabin crew for an airline. There was a guy she saw on the plane who was acting strange. Sweating, slightly pale, looking blankly into the seat in front of him. It didn't seem that he was… Continue reading Sometimes To Make A Difference You Just Need To Ask “Are You OK?”
It All Starts With An Idea
Two fish swam past one another. One turns to the other and says: "The water's nice today isn't it?" After a few minutes the second fish thought to himself: "What's water???" Ideas are valuable. Ideas are the birthplace of innovation, entrepreneurship and value creation. The problem in today's world is that many ideas go unquestioned… Continue reading It All Starts With An Idea
Fear, Tension, Resistance & Your Best Work
"We got taught for 12 or 16 years at school, that our job was to get an "A", that if we are defective we fail - we were reprocessed, sent back a grade and had to do it again. This idea that we better be right, that we better be perfect, that we better get… Continue reading Fear, Tension, Resistance & Your Best Work
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