I hope so. Unlike former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt–who mortally wounded the concept of vision for an entire nation with his now famous quote (“If you have visions, get to a doctor.”)–I would declare you fabulously healthy if you are....
Hearing complaints about the volume of e-mails is an occupational hazard in our trade, but the odd thing is that the same complaint is heard from people getting 30 per day and those receiving 300. No matter what the number, I think we have more influence over the...
August is done, but–as I try to catch the wave of work here in September–I’m feeling a tinge of nostalgia for the month just past. August means many things for me, and one of them is that it’s Tool Shed Month. Pretty much every August for the...
(Note: In honour of the upcoming Olympics here in London, today’s post involves a swimming metaphor. You don’t have to be an Olympic swimmer to read it, but familiarity with the basics of locomotion in an aquatic environment will be useful.) In our coaching and...
With all due respect to Sir Francis Bacon, I don’t agree with his famous and oft-cited phrase, ‘knowledge is power’. Not in today’s world, anyway. He wrote in a time and in a context (The Enlightenment) when opening up learning to a wider population was driving...
