Last week a friend told me a story of a colleague she’s been encouraging to spread his wings and take on a bigger role. As a chap suffused with a healthy self-awareness he was doubting his ‘fit’ as he’d ‘never done half the things the role demanded’. He lamented that he was nowhere near [...]
Space Monsters! Ever been sitting with your pals, cracking happily on about whatever however, when whoooomph, the Space Monster lands. Chomp, chomp, chomp the Space Monster is just eating through your words, your air, your very presence seems to disappear under their almighty, all consuming Self! [...]
This is not a blog about navigating uncertainty, languishing, disconnection, pivots and any of the other buzz words flooding the leadership chatter. It’s not about the flattened panopticon of the Zoomiverse and it’s absolutely not mansplaining how you, as a leader, must be feeling. This is a [...]
“Jo – oh -oh!” oh good lord here we go my inner voices mutters as I hear the client graft a couple of extra and unnecessary syllables, Scooby Doo style, onto my sufficiently syllabled name. “Can you just…….?” I feel her metaphorical teeth sink in as the energy-care-attention suck [...]
The children huddled closer together, skin touching skin, seeking shelter from the curious eyes of the onlookers. They shuffled and bent their slender bodies into one another melding into a seamless bundle of body and cloth, sweat and limbs entwining forming a oneness against the many that had come [...]
leaving and not leaving at all Sunday: The packing up and preparing to leave was a proper ass-kicking today. Again! How is that? I move so often. Yet I’m still confounded by the disproportionate angst and unravelling that suffocates at these transition times. I figured it was just the fraying of [...]
Seduction A few months back I realised that I had been seduced by the glamour of the leadership and unwittingly bought in to a competitive, mass myth creation process: what is leadership? find the ‘answer’ to leadership, find the ‘answer’ to … life? Despite knowing the extent of its [...]
A shudder of sand dusts the tent walls as he flips over for the umpteenth time, sleeping bag mangling in the decision-burdened wakefulness of the long night. Backwards and forwards, body echoing mind – get on the river, or get out. Ke garne? The sleepfree mangler: Pat O’Keeffe: white-water [...]
There’s nothing new about VUCA. And nothing bad about it either Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous “The world is changing too fast!” “I don’t understand it – scary!” “Crikey –it’s all so vague” ‘Doomed!’ ‘Everybody [...]
Vision is dead (long live visioning) It’s time to stop focusing on vision – on peering forward into the mystical never-never prescribing an ideal state And expecting leaders to have a magical ability to predict, present and make possible the future Let’s let go of confining ourselves to a [...]