Growing into leadership through the quiet practice of wisdom.
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Remote working brings real benefits; I'm an advocate. Less commuting, wider talent pools, dead time reclaimed, and my kids now know me, but there's a robotic cost. We become governed by 30-minute slots, bouncing from call to call to keep the machine synchronised and moving. Sometimes
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On Assent and Vocation. "Here, we can glimpse one of the Stoics' most fundamental attitudes: the delimitation of our own sphere of liberty as an impregnable islet of autonomy, in the midst of the vast river of events of Destiny" This powerful line from Hadot in his
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Flow has been written about in many books, promoted as an enjoyable way of spending time. A time when your mind and body are at ease with their surroundings, wholly focussed on the task at hand. Time, rumination of the past, anxiety for the future all subside, replaced by the
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Memory Palaces, The Method of Loci Have you ever noticed it’s far easier to remember how to get somewhere than it is to recite something you’ve read? On one hand, we can hop in a car, pull out the drive and visualize the journey from start to finish
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The Boulder to our North Star. Anyone wanting to create a future divergent from the status quo, tasked with setting a vision, standing out in front and saying “follow me” or looking inside themselves to become someone better than they currently are should empathise with the challenges faced by the
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I found out from a colleague recently that in the new year, on February 6th it will be world retrospective day ( http://worldretroday.com/ ), who’d have thought such a thing existed? The cynical me immediately thought of all the other labelled days we have and following a brief google
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Ethical Codes For a Digital Age. Thanks to colleagues I was the recent and fortunate recipient of a couple of tickets for Breakout17, an event focusing on ethical codes in the digital age (https://www.bora-co.com/). There were an array of speakers representing the majority of disciplines found within
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In the complicated domain, we have an illusion of predictability, a projection forward in time of events yet to happen, architected in either the current or past, a snapshot of activities and a state with an associated benefit. In the complex world, we have flow, failure, exaptation and adaptation, like
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In his book on Servant Leadership Robert Greenleaf presents a principled call to conscience, an attempt to initiate modern leaders into practical wisdom and help them attain moral authority by learning to lead themselves before others and lead others through an egoless posture of serving. He had observed in his