Last year I wrote a blog post on how to get better at receiving feedback,  as a counterpoint to all the articles out there that are helping us get better at giving feedback. But there is little more frustrating than building oneself up to asking for feedback, only to...

Many years ago, when I was working in Indonesia, my boss, who was a bit of contrarian himself, recommended I read The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, by Steven Sample. I did. And, over 20 years later I still circle back and refer to my key takeaways. One his...

Several years ago I was about to leave for a conference on innovation in San Francisco when my boss asked me what my plans for networking there were. This threw me into a sense of panic for two, potentially contradictory, reasons.  On the one hand, as a borderline...

Have you ever arrived somewhere after a long (possibly plane journey) and felt that, while your physical body is present, there are parts of you that are still somewhere else, possibly high over the water somewhere, possibly still lingering at your last destination?...

Exploring the irony of how I find it easier to make mistakes the more experienced I get in something.

If I ask you to think of a butterfly, most likely an image pops into your head. Maybe of the butterfly at the end of Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar, maybe a Red Admiral or Cabbage White if you grew up like me in the South of England, maybe a big yellow...

Finding and choosing a coach can feel hard. I’ve pulled together some thoughts and guidelines from my experience of talking to others to help think this through.