“Don’t give scandal!”Growing up in an Irish Catholic family in Canada, this was one of the teachings drilled into me. For the non-Catholics reading this: scandal can be understood as either an action or an omission that leads another to sin or moral error. To give...
An adult male Indian elephant weighs between 2500 and 5000 kg. That’s the equivalent of a Land Rover Discovery on the lighter end or a Cadillac Escalade on the heavier. Have you ever wondered how such a powerful creature can be restrained and held captive by a small...
It’s a Wednesday, which means it was a bootcamp morning. Given that this body of mine is into its 50th+ trip around the sun, I want to take care of it by exercising, but doing it in a way that respects the miles on the odometer. (I don’t get that with the clicks) This...
rocrastination has a bad rep. But not all procrastination is the same.
Indeed, procrastination can be really good.
I have recently learnt that from…
Guilt – something even people who were not raised by Irish catholic parents can experience.
But what if guilt wasn’t all bad? What if it could be a useful emotion for a leader? How might that occur?
Simple stories get in your way when trying to solve complex challenges. Instead of making up simple stories, a beginner’s mind is the way out of this trap.
Repeating something over and over again doesn’t make it true. One of the ‘truths’ I keep hearing is this: “People are weary of change.” Admittedly, I have said it too! Codswallop! People make and embrace dramatic changes all the time. As a species we would not...