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• Dabbling with the minds of leaders and society
• Never mind 'resolutions' - what ONE thing could you do...
• What exactly is an entrepreneur?
• The art of Organisation Development (OD)
• Was Marshall Field really all that wrong?
• Business Book of the Week - Understanding the Small Business Sector - Storey
• How crowd accelerated innovation is transforming the nature of entrepreneurship
• Whatever happened to quiet time? "Because I love the new you."
• Calling a halt to mindless change - 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet?
• Cultivating 'gravitas' - What is spirituality?
• How do you facilitate?
• Would you choose a coach for their 'credentials' or their personality?
• Calling all INTJ, Sagittarian, IMA High RED, amber memes - it's time to get REAL (Relevant, Evidenced, Accurate and Logical)
• If this WAS your last day, what WOULD you do?
• Psychotherapeutic treatment can cure Cyclothymic Disorder
• Scapegoating and social media networks
• Feel better - create a scapegoat
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) - What are WE going to do?
• Just how common are mental health problems?
• Zeta-Jones, bipolar, and other high-performance 'disorders'
• Zeta-Jones is one of many creatives to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but what is it?
• "Why a lack of empathy is the root of all evil"
• Business Book of the Week : The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov
• Digital utopianism and the allure of the internet
• The Personal Branding Phenomenon - distinguish yourself
• The Beauty of Diagrams - The Vitruvian Man - Art, Architecture, Anatomy combined mathematically
• Business Book of the Week : The Khan Academy 'flips' education (12/03/2011)
• After greed, is the relentless pursuit of efficiency as damaging?
• What exactly is a 'rapporteur'?
• Business Book of the Week - Kanzi - The ape at the brink of the Human mind
• People who are lonely at work are often also lonely outside
• The much maligned 'ego' - common qualities of arrogant executives, religious zealots and suicidal terrorists
• Business Book of the Week - Fried challenges the myths in Rework
• Business Book of the Week - Christakis - Connected = The science of social media networks
• Ten ways for senior executives to get ahead by managing themselves
• Business Book of the Week - Zimbardo on the nature of Evil
• CIPD reports: 2 out of 5 public sector organisations undergoing redundancies
• The future of HR - what really needs to change is the approach of some of its leaders
• Business Book of the Week - Robinson - The element - How finding your passion changes everything
• Acquiring gravitas (sometimes called charisma)
• Call it gravitas or charisma - it's the quality that distinguishes statesmen from politicians
• Likeability and trustworthiness are key to board appointments
• Business Book of the Week - Watson - Future Minds - How The Digital Age is Changing Our Minds
• Business Book of the Week - Drive - The surprising truth about what motivates us by Daniel Pink
• BBOTW - Mind Maps for Business by Tony Buzan
• Unaccustomed, as I am, to effusive praise...
• Business Book of the Week - Them and Us - why we need a fair society by Will Hutton
• BBOTW - The way we're working isn't working (Schwartz)
• BBOTW - "Linked - How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business and Everyday Life" by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• When what you say has the opposite effect
• BBOTW - What got you here won't get you there (Marshall Goldsmith)
• BBOTW - "Screw Work, Let's Play" by John Williams
• Social Media - How to get the most from it
• BBOTW - "59 Seconds" by Richard Wiseman
• Psychodynamic confidants in fiction - Deanna Troi - Star Trek
• BBOTW - "What the dog saw" by Malcolm Gladwell
• Leadership and Personal Development Agreement
• An appreciation of one of those people who touched my life without knowing, and led me to work as a psychodynamic 'confidant'
• How psychotherapeutic confidants enhance Boardroom decisions
• Why Greenpeace took action today?
• Every once in a while, you read something SO profound...
• How childhood experiences can undermine executive performance - how one boy fell victim to his mother
• When someone loses balance, work quality and impact suffers
• Juggling family expectations and personal passion in an executive career
• Using an empty chair to turn negatives into positives
• The difference between 'targets' and 'outcomes'
• When organisations have their own life
• How projection undermines even polished performers
• Reaching inside an executive's hard shell
• Teams, groups, executives, and the psychodynamics of unconscious urges
• What will YOUR wake up call be?
• A very quick introduction to Psychodynamics
• The Dalai Lama explains why social media work so well
• Dalai Lama offers social media users advice on avoiding conflict
• Interpreting SOHO business names
• The myth of the SoHo entrepreneurial boom
• What is the ‘point’ of personal development?
• Papal visit outrage – it ain’t what you do, it’s the way people react to it
• Is this social media thing just a psychological defence mechanism?
• Corporate Alumni Networks – savvy employers nurture their leavers
• Social Intelligence – why some people love parties and others hate them
• The use and abuse of power at work – Association (4/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Position (3/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Control (2/21)
• The use and abuse of power at work – Introduction (1/21)
• When the experts begin to love themselves - Oliver James
• What DOES ‘banter’ in social media say about you?
• Differentiate yourself through emotional literacy
• A further nail in the coffin of the Royal Mail?
• Would you help me with an ebook? Collaborative project. NO CATCH!
• An apocalyptic view of leadership (v2)
• Have you tested your own Customer Care experience?
• The risks and responsibilities of personal development
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 3 – The Sales Model
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 2 – Writing and Public Speaking are both creative forms of selling
• Writing (and speaking) made easy – Part 1 – The Pervasive Nature of Selling
• Governance, fraud and the leader’s confidante
• Governance, fraud and management of emotion in decision making
• The interesting case of an OVER performing team
• Bank holidays, portfolio careers and winter cold cures
• How PowerPoint contributed to the Columbia re-entry disaster
• Speed networking – not all it is cracked up to be
• How to turn down a job offer
• Business preparedness for swine flu - oh, come on!
• Climate mitigation – McDonalds takes a lead
• The role of a psychotherapist’s supervisor
• Writing to build your counselling/psychotherapy practice
• Making heroes out of leaders
• Why climate security affects us all
• What does climate security mean to ‘real’ people?
• When leaders fear to lead
• A few more thoughts on networking...
• Corporate Alumni Networks - managing your reputation and protecting your future in recessionary times
• Politicians urged to use the economic crisis to fight climate change and eliminate poverty
• Greening the economy
• An environmentally more friendly alternative to Google
• Greening the economy
• Free Year Planner for 2009
• Resolutions, goals, happiness and engagement
• When is a model more than just a pretty face?
• The Myth of Positive Stress
• Developing Social Intelligence
• Emotional Literacy
• Why Social Intelligence is more important than simply EQ
• What makes us happy?
• Fertilising trees to combat climate change
• When dynamics spiral out of control
• Quaker business practices prove to be more profitable
• Midlife crises, chasing God, and other existential issues
• What do our priorities say about us?
• Say it with flowers. The emerging science of symbols and why it is important to business and leadership
• Conscientiousness is the secret to a long life
• Leadership and resilience - a genetic heritage?
• Avert your eyes, something big is about to happen
• It ain't what you do, nor is it necessarily how you do it...
• Create a new window into your organisation
• The Brain Machine interface
• Insights on business from American Express
• Balfour Beatty, serious fraud and a culture of deception
• Leaders, Governance and the Chaplain
• Customer Contempt 3 : BT Broadband (British Telecom)
• Incentive and Reward - why organisation-wide schemes often fail
• The ethics of false or grandiose claims in advertising...
• Corporate Prosperity and Posterity
• Priorities for business initiatives in 2008
• Keeping to your resolutions
• The role of the Chaplain at a Marriott Hotel
• Hillary Clinton urged to model herself on Margaret Thatcher
• Investment Analysts need Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - is it a teenage thing?
• Mayor's Office receives accolades for Six Sigma efforts
• Ken Livingstone appoints Director of Six Sigma
• Preaching the Human Sigma Gospel
• Executive Coaching is a maturing market
• It's all in the name, but which one?
• Is emotional intelligence an infantile approach to life?
• Do company-wide development programmes work?
• What makes an ethical leader?
• Make Sense of Unstructured Data
• Do some professions demand a portfolio career?
• Damning criticism of Six Sigma by US Quality Professional
• USAF saves nearly 50000 walking miles, 16000 man-hours and $8M
• Some Six Sigma videos on YouTube
• Leading the Lean Enterprise
• When people ask me if Leadership Development works...
• Sometimes a few gray hairs work...
• In a downturn, what do Executive Coaches do?
• Do coaches pick up the ball missed by managers?
• Youth and Leadership Development
• Do sporting analogues work in the world of business?
• Leadership coaching and existential psychology
• Business school includes prayer as a tool for creativity and more
• Does history inform the future?
• On Being Human
• Contempt for Customers - 2 Tropicana Pure Premium
• Contempt for Customers - 1 Chiltern Railways
• Profit and loss - more than a simple equation
• Management Insult 4: Talent Management Programmes
• Management Insult 3: Due Diligence
• Management Insults 2: "Pro Bono"
• Management Insult 1: "Intellectual Property"
• Spiritual blessings, civil registrations and wedding celebrations
• How you can do a little bit for charity, without spending a penny (more)
• The Royal Mail Online Postage Scam
• Angry young men
• Charity working and volunteers - a Good News story!
• Is something 'wrong' with Britain?
• Why are we so obsessed with the bad news?
• The delicate issue of EGO
• Day-to-day ethics
• You only need to be let down once by a guide book
• The "Great Places to Avoid" Guide Book

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