For those of you who have read my posts over the past month or so, you may have noticed that I’ve been exploring a couple of themes. Those have been Geoffrey Moore’s work on core vs. context and the concept of managing our inner board of directors (adapted from Kerry Parson’s work on The Essential … Continue reading Perfect is the Enemy of “Good Enough”
Restructuring Our Internal Board of Directors
In a post I wrote last week, I discussed the concept of our internal board of directors which is responsible for the self-critical internal chatter that most of us experience. The main message of the post is that there are techniques we can employ that will increase our self-awareness of how these internal critics influence our … Continue reading Restructuring Our Internal Board of Directors
Dealing With Our Internal Board of Directors
In my coaching practice one of the concepts I often work with clients on is how to manage what I call their “Board of Directors”. Others refer to them as the “old tapes” that play in their heads, perhaps confronted by a problem or questioned on their work product. I’ve learned to refer to them … Continue reading Dealing With Our Internal Board of Directors
Lessons Learned While Driving This Week
It wasn’t a normal week of driving, the kind where I pull out of my garage, tune in to my favourite radio station and engage the autopilot for a trip which I won’t remember more than 30 seconds of once I park in the same spot I always do underground at the office.
What’s It Like To Be Illiterate?
One of things most of us take for granted is being literate. I certainly do – it terrifies me to think that I might not be able to read and therefore absorb information and learn. We’ve been travelling in Spain for the last two plus weeks and it has been a period that in which basic … Continue reading What’s It Like To Be Illiterate?
Exercising Good Judgment
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back (The Cost Of Being Judgmental) that was in essence about how being “judgmental” interferes with our ability to learn and discover. In that post, a blogging colleague that I respect a lot (Diana Schwenk at talktodiana) made a very astute comment that really got me thinking … Continue reading Exercising Good Judgment
Leading Essentially 