I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together. Thus wrote John Lennon in the Beatles’ 1967 “I am the Walrus”. To be sure, Lennon was having fun spoofing all the academics attributing deep and hidden (and wrong) meaning to earlier lyrics. The song was by intention entire…
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” was his response. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” By selecting a road at random, Alice would never…
There must be a thousand time management tools out there. I would estimate that I’ve tried dozens, with mixed degrees of success, and I’ll bet you’ve done the same. One of my favorites is also one of the simplest, one developed by Eisenhower. Dwight Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in…
My dog Meic is a very clever fellow, if somewhat obsessive-compulsive. He’s highly trainable, so long as you can get him to focus. And recently, Meic has taught me a really important lesson about myself. Meic loves to fetch. Balls, sticks, frisbees, whatever. He’s a natural athlete, flying high to bring down the frisbee or…
Time and time again in my coaching I encounter individuals with the most enviable Giftings who are having great difficulty “leaving the runway”. They suffer from what I call the Boundless Buffet Syndrome, that is, they possess so many skills and talents and have such active minds that they can’t come to grips with choosing…
David Thompson was perhaps the greatest mapmaker who ever lived. During his lifetime he walked and paddled something in the range of 90,000 kilometres and mapped nearly five million square kilometres, about 20% of North America. He was the third to reach the Pacific, after Mackenzie (first) and Lewis and Clark (second). Unlike most other…
For a few years now I’ve been going on about Giftings and Alignment and all such, and one might properly ask if these notions are more than just the ravings of a cranky old retired lawyer in his dotage. Well, yes, they may be that, but there is also some good science behind the concepts….
Musical notation is a mystery to me, always will be. I’ve long since given up trying to decipher treble clefs and bass clefs and what notes go where. Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, I think was the aide memoire, and I forget if that was for the lines or the spaces. It would help, I…
You hear a lot about the need to maintain a good work/life balance. There’s much to recommend that discussion – we all need it. But there’s an implicit and easy fallacy which often takes over the dialogue, that is, that work and life are two discrete provinces of our lives. Seen this way, the struggle…
From time to time in my coaching I’m asked to help someone decide if it’s time for them to move on from their current professional place. If you’re looking for snappy answers, you’ve come to the wrong guy. But if you want some help working it out for yourself, here are some of the issues…