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Shape up. Let the brickie go!

How much thinking goes into the selection and use of team development approaches and tools where you …

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You’re an expert? Really?

Trawling through LinkedIn the other day I was struck by how many former military officers claim to …

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What’s that button for?

Remember the joke about the apprentice lumberjack? He could only clock up nine trees a day compared …

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Buckets of love and crampons

Climbing the highest mountain in each of the seven continents – the “Seven Summits” – has become …

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Spend more between the noses!

The coaching industry worldwide is a big one, with big budgets. And most of these are spent …

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Too much binary nonsense!

Are leaders more important than managers? Nature or nurture? Right or wrong? This one or that one? …

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Talked with anyone from another world recently?

Ever had that feeling when talking to someone that you are somehow missing one another? The language and …

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Hey, it’s real play not role play

Last week I wrote about how two actors brought life to a mock board exercise that was …

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Awesome, artful weaving!

I was recently part of a non-executive directors selection process. One element involved my chairing of a …

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Sloppy thoughts

Is it just me or is anyone else bumping up against lots of binary questions and linear …

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Wad’a’ya mean!?

Last week’s blog by Mike Noel-Smith drew on a voyage by Leif Ericson, the Norse sea-farer, to …

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A lief out of a Norse leadership story

The wind howled like a thousand crying wolves and the waves crashed against the longboat throwing up …

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