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 By Graham Wilson, on March 23rd, 2013There’s a quote attributed to the teachings of Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, known generally as Atisa, one of the reformers of Buddhism from around 1000AD. It goes; “The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.” I’ve not heard it said much recently, but one of the qualities that used to be revered in leadership was being a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 15th, 2013A while back I started collecting examples of business-speak that I found alarming. Some simply seemed to set out to confuse. Others were intended to make the speaker seem clever – usually for their own benefit. But the worst examples were ones where the term indicated an absence of care and concern for the people … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 10th, 2013Alcoholics in crisis provoke strong responses among the people around them. Some feel great sadness and sympathy for the individual; others are angered that they could have allowed themselves to get into this condition; and still more are fearful, as the behaviour of someone they know has become unpredictable and often seemingly uncontrollable. When that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on December 7th, 2012One of a generation of motivational speakers, Zig Ziglar, died last week at the age of 86. When I began to perform myself in the late 1980s, it was often tapes by Ziglar that I would listen to as I drove from ‘gig’ to ‘gig’ and which influenced my own style enormously. Born in 1926, … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 23rd, 2012“I never know quite how to introduce myself…” By Graham Wilson, on September 5th, 2012When exploring the uniqueness of a particular job or assignment, HR professionals often break it down into the knowledge, skills and attitudes thought necessary to fulfill it. In a recent article based on a paper I gave at the at the World Conference for Corporate Governance and Sustainability held in Dubai in May, I called … / continued By Graham Wilson, on August 20th, 2012This month, I’m involved in helping run a summer school in Oxford, the Adaptation Academy, for senior staff involved in climate adaptation projects. My strand embraces the human dimension – self-development, leadership, politics, and communication. Following a leadership tour of the City of Oxford, one of the participants posted this question in the Academy’s collaboration … / continued By Graham Wilson, on June 11th, 2012I know I’m not qualified to comment really, but I do find some parents attitude to parenting quite bizarre… We had a coffee in Abingdon marketplace the other weekend. A couple of parents arrived with one infant in stroller and one youngster in backpack. Something was going on because the mother was in a right … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 15th, 2012In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; “And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition”. When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon. If it’s a negative feeling then we are somehow anticipating that our personal … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 8th, 2012In his book, “Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else”, published in 2008, Geoff Colvin presented an extraordinarily well researched argument that demonstrated that the key characteristic that distinguished people who were widely recognised as world class was the manner with which they approached their subject over time: Greatness doesn’t come … / continued |
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