Category: Personal Change
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Look where you want to go, not where you are going
I have recently embarked on a new adventure, well, when I say adventure I guess I mean challenge! Ever since an experience a couple of years ago on the back of a ‘motor taxi’ around the ‘peripherique’ in Paris I have wanted to learn to ride a motorbike. So, having taken my basic test last…
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Destination or Journey?
I was recently stimulated by an interesting and insightful article by a blogger called James Clear, it was entitled ‘If You Completely Ignored Your Goals and Focused on This One Thing Would You Get Better Results?’ It is worth a read and it got me thinking. I have always been a big advocate that there…
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Business Lessons Learned from Lambing
We all have our passions – what is yours? What is it that brings a smile, creates energy, momentum and a drive to overcome obstacles? For me it is Ferguson Farm and my alter ego Farmer Ferguson; I expect that we all share the same challenge – finding the time, space and opportunity to indulge…
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Are you an Additional?
I was trawling the wonderful TED.com website the other day and came across an interesting interview with Larry Page from Google; he shared his views on a series of topics and the video itself is well worth a watch. However, a concept and a word jumped out which tickled my interest – “additionality”. If you…
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Breaking down Barriers
Have you ever experienced the frustration of working across organisational silos where colleagues invest time and effort in protecting their space, their knowledge and their power to the detriment of the results produced? Well read on and see if my recent trip up Kilimanjaro can shed some light on the challenge. As a small boy…
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Change starts here
Making the decision to change is hard because it requires us to overcome inertia. Inertia that has a significant gravity associated through all the historic and valid associations which have stood you in good stead for so long. I strongly believe that the decision is the hard part, dealing with the implications may be tough…