Transform your career by shifting: Shift 11 - From Trust As Control To Trust As Faith There comes a point in all things that really matter in life when trying to exert control is not sufficient. The complexities of the world make it impossible to be any more planned or prepared, there will always be some ...
The Day my Dog became a Triangle Dogs are not triangles. Any fool knows this. They don't even bother assessing this knowledge when they issue you with a dog license. So it was very awkward indeed when my dog became a triangle. For a start her name is Chloe. This is less embarrassing to call out ...
I want to share a resource I've been working on over the last week called the Edge of Chaos Posters. I've designed a couple of posters that try to illustrate the idea of the relationship between certainty and uncertainty. I decided to select words that in some way illustrate the ideas of certainty and uncertainty, order ...
How long has there been serious interest in goal setting? You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior. However according to PsycInfo (the largest and most authoritative database on published psychological research), between 1900 and 1980, a search of this data base on the terms "goal ...
Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking When I was a child, I didn't want to be with the other young kids in the shallow end of the pool, but I was also secretly too scared to want to be at the deep end where the cool kids ...
The Strange Strength of Vulnerability Here is a paradox - the strongest systems are those that are most susceptible to change. They are the ones that have a lot of connections. The more connected a person is, the more sources of support they can draw upon when they are struggling. The more people in a person's ...
I got a gift from Brené Brown the other day. Actually you could call it a gift squared, because the gift was The Gifts of Imperfection, her popular and really very very good book. Brené, unbeknownst to me, offers prizes for contributions of comments to her blog. My name came out of her Houston Hat, ...
