Understandably (and with honorable intent) some folks are wrestling with unpleasant decisions they are ‘compelled’ to make just now. Furloughing, redundancies, cost cutting and the raft of other tough calls. What creates a lot of (unnecessary angst) is the assumption that this decision will wreck, upset, upend, finish or ruin...
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives – Annie Dillard It’s not time we lack, its a reverence for the preciousness of time and a day to day acknowledgement of its declining balance. We live like we are going to live forever such is...
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It is a perhaps an unfortunate but inevitable fact that we can end up doing business with people who lack integrity; they mislead, duck, dive, blame and refuse to take responsibility. What we often end up doing, more than anything else, in these rare but tricky scenarios is beat ourselves...
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At the risk of Rugby World Cup clichés… Lets say England are 12-0 up at half time. Stuart Lancaster will hold a half time team talk – the principle intent to ensure that the current margin of victory is held and or built on. Lets say England are 0-12 down...
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The last thing I want to hear when I’m down is that I’m down. The first person to know that they are struggling is the person struggling. The Project Team or the delivery partner organisation likewise know when the heat is on – they don’t need a kick, they need...
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Could you change the Western Culture in your lifetime? Fat chance. How about European culture? Less fatter chance. How about British Culture? A 400 year project for the Romans. (Cue – what did the Romans do for us...?) How about an industry culture? (A work in progress since Latham’s Constructing...
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How do you get divorced without it being awful, awkward, scary and testing? You don’t. Those things go with the territory and like the arduous climb up Scafell Pike a necessary part of getting from A to B. That’s my answer when a client either directly asks or infers how...
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Social capital is defined as the inclinations that arise from networks that want to do things for each other (norms of reciprocity). Shooting the breeze about Social Capital is not the most common conversation you hear in the contractors corridors, the design studio or the partners meeting – but the...
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And so it begins. My six year old daughter’s life long career battle with those who will want to label and focus on ‘her weaknesses’ (and her own internal self doubt and confusion). Sophia ‘is easily distracted‘. Sophia ‘has difficulty staying focussed’. Sophia has ‘a wondering attention‘. I too used...
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Tiger Woods is ranked 15 in sand saves on the PGA stats. He is number one in all round ranking. Tiger wins his games on his extraordinary, hard wired, strength of his long game which, he practices, practices, and practices on. He gives little attention to sand saves other than...
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