October 13, 2022
How Work Without Meaning Can Be Toxic Too
"Mental health issues are often based on the tension between what one has achieved and what one has the potential to become." - Clive Lewis
Posts categorised with 'Book Insight'
August 11, 2022
Self-Esteem: When My Inner Demon Gets It Wrong
"Running into that thing makes our anxiety spike – and we start telling stories in our head about what an inadequate person we are."
July 14, 2022
Living to 100 – Career Choices and Challenges in the “New Long Life”
Longer lifespans and improved technology: both of these bring choices that my grandfathers never had – along with some significant new challenges
June 9, 2022
Being Shy – and Still Connecting
"The presence of shyness shows that we're connected." –Melanie Bell
May 12, 2022
What Would Michael Porter Say – Be the Best or Be Unique?
"People in the performing arts don’t reach the top of the tree by crushing the opposition. They do it by being creative," - Steven Edwards
March 10, 2022
Why Indecision Is Worth Thinking About
"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance." – Daniel Kahneman
February 10, 2022
Human Nature: Not as Bad as We Think We Are
"People collaborated to survive. Groups appointed leaders because they had useful skills, not because they were dominant." - Simon Bell
January 13, 2022
Finding the Courage to Be Me
"I decided as a young girl that love equalled loss, abandonment and pain. Why on earth would I want to do that again?" – Katherine Baldwin
December 16, 2021
Unconscious Bias: I’ve Been Hiding in Plain View
"I don’t suffer the grinding, low-level, day-to-day discrimination experienced by people who don’t have the privilege I’ve enjoyed" – Simon Bell
November 11, 2021
Why Some Boards Work – and Some Don’t!
"We had a clear goal, plus all the investment we needed to start. And we had fire in our bellies. We were new to the business world, but we were determined to make it big." - Jonathan Hancock
October 14, 2021
Why Listening Should Be Top of Our Lists
All I wanted was to be listened to, for five minutes. I’d still have been out of a job. But I might have left thinking I'd been valued
September 16, 2021
I Just Met My Remote Team IRL! – Back in the Office After Lockdown
"it's not until you go into an office and see how it's decorated, the layout, the furniture, the kitchen, that you get a true sense of the company you've joined" – James Pritchard