by Edward Lamont | 5 May 2020 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
I’d like to tell you it was virtue, but it wasn’t. At a certain point, I just couldn’t take it anymore. The desire for change came slowly, then suddenly. I can pinpoint the moment. It was when I saw a picture of myself with a seriously overweight dog on my lap. Lucy...
by James Harwood | 22 Jan 2020 | Capture, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, James Harwood's Blog, Reflect, Weekly Review |
If ever there was a time to get our visions perfectly clear, it must surely be in 2020! Often at New Year, people scout around for opportunities and ideas to add to their ‘Resolutions’ for the coming year. Trying to remember or think of great things they could achieve...
by Edward Lamont | 9 Jan 2020 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Planning |
As we move into the middle of the first month of the year, the most ambitious among you are either looking at – or still gently polishing – your goals for this year. Most people will have given this ‘new year, new you’ idea some thought as we rolled into a new decade,...
by guest | 21 Aug 2018 | Blog, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
Susan Hunter, currently in limbo, works to create order in service and manufacturing organisations, from privately owned SMEs to large international groups, in the UK, Continental Europe and North Africa. Susan is a graduate of London University and has a diploma in...
by Todd Brown | 15 Mar 2018 | Engage, Organise, Planning, Todd Brown's Blog |
I’ve been thinking lately a lot about what defines success, and the messages that we receive in the marketplace of ideas about being “more successful.” Usually, those messages are based on the belief that success is externally defined, that there are objective...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Feb 2018 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Employee engagement, Engage, Leadership, Talent development, Working Standards |
In the second blog in this series, we looked at how you might get a sense of what the current reality around working standards is in your team or organisation. If that exercise – of uncovering current standards – highlighted the need for change, what to do...
by guest | 8 May 2017 | Blog, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, Planning |
David Griffin is a senior consultant at Cambridge based 42 Technology, which offers pragmatic engineering innovation, design and development services to clients in a range of industries. He first started with GTD in 2003, when Palm Pilot devices were no longer cool...
by Edward Lamont | 4 Feb 2016 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Stress and Wellbeing |
It’s the 4th of February today. Set any new resolutions at the beginning of this month? I didn’t think so. Strange how we do that in January, but in February not so much. Still, I have to ask: how did you do? In January, I mean. Research shows that although millions...
by Edward Lamont | 5 Mar 2015 | Blog |
‘I don’t like this exercise’. Given the expression on his face I didn’t actually have to get close enough to hear him to know that he was not enjoying the exercise, but – having learned to keep moving when things are looking good, and to step in when things are...
by Robert Peake | 27 May 2014 | Blog |
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” ― Rabbi Hillel Organisations have systems–from organograms to annual reviews–designed to ensure that the right people focus on the right...
by Edward Lamont | 8 Oct 2012 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog |
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....
