The Referred Pain of Procrastination
Medicine 2 by Sergio Roberto My watching of a favourite American TV show about a cantankerous Dr House, and a 121 chat with a colleague at Madgex started me thinking about why we sometimes find it...
View ArticleNLP, Modelling and Scenario Planning
Captive by Stockers9 I read a great article by Ram Charan - he is a kind of ‘star’ adviser to some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Apparently he has no home, just living in hotels and on planes...
View ArticleThe Power of Game Playing Over the Unconscious
Floral Abstraction by Japonka It’s been a while since I’ve explored one of my favourite topics: game playing. But I must update in this post on some of the ongoing reading from Claxton’s Hare Brain I...
View ArticleTrial Run to Overcome Your Procrastination
Back looking at Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind and I’ve hit a brilliant point where our belief system is explored: ‘We possess a whole variety of beliefs, many of which are themselves...
View ArticleWhy the 20 Minute Rule and Ignoring Yourself Increase Productivity
Thinking a lot about the apparent contradiction in the following: Is the best way of being truly mindful, creative and in the ‘here and now’ to be continually running a slot management and priority...
View ArticleWhat Forrest Gump is Still Teaching Me
What do The Dog Whisperer and Forest Gump have in common? Both cause reflection about how the average human’s sense and awareness of past and future can be debilitating to performance in the present...
View ArticleTalking to Myself Again
Yep. I’m talking to myself more and more these days. I’ve even started emailing myself. The onset of madness, or management for a healthy mind? In fairness, I’ve not yet got to the stage that others I...
View ArticleRun a Business Like Making a Movie
Films are successful only if everyone, from key grip to leading actor, shares a common understanding of what the end result must look and sound like. Harvard Business Review’s Bendapudi & Bendapudi...
View ArticleQuestioning Yourself as a Higher form of Talking to Yourself?
So a personal sea-change moment? A shift in beliefs? Search for ‘vision and goal-setting’ on this blog. Look at my ‘About’ page and you will see, ‘my long-term passion is to investigate the...
View ArticleNudge Yourself To Change
Back to the game playing idea, I read an interesting article in the Times loosely based around Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge. Thaler and Sunstein ‘demonstrate how thoughtful “choice...
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