Ever Wondered How To Become Great At Just About Anything?
A golf player, after taking a particularly difficult shot, received a round of applause from the onlooking crowd. Everybody was cheering, clapping their hands and loudly…
Re/Think Zone
Sharp Lessons From The Room
Most of these ideas aren't mine. The connections are.
Think of me as your filter. Thousands of business books. Millions of articles. Endless podcast episodes.
I collect the ideas worth keeping. I test them. I sharpen them. I connect them. I strip away the BS.
Then I give them back in plain English.
One useful idea every two weeks. Enough to help you see what you couldn't see before. Pull on any thread. See where it takes you....
Don’t Tell Me What You're Doing, Tell Me What You've Stopped Doing
Jim Collins, the author of the cult business classic Good to Great, earns applause when he lectures about focus and "stop doing" lists. He suggests an interesting…
Success Isn’t Guaranteed Even If You Make The Best Plane In The World
"There’s something magical about the experience of taking a blank sheet of paper and being able to make it take flight with just a few careful, strategic folds. The art…
Who Do You Want Your People To Become?
"Without an objective, the objective will not be reached. Without a goal, the goal will not be achieved. Without a standard, the standard will not be met. Without a…
Expertise Has No Value To An Audience That Doesn’t Understand
Many ideas that seem obvious in conversation are often forgotten in the moment when you should be implementing them. That’s why there's value in endlessly getting back…
NASA Lesson Learned: Why Groups Sometimes Make Bad Decisions?
“None of us is as dumb as all of us,” says a sign on the wall in a meeting room at NASA. Why does NASA use such a simple motto? At first reading, this statement seems…
Questions To Future Leaders: Are You One Of Them?
These days you can find pretty much anything online. Most people will click on one of the first few Google results because they’ve found what they’re looking for, don’t…
When You Are Part Of FC Liverpool, You'll Never Walk Alone
Lewis Balfe, an eleven-year-old schoolboy from Maidenhead, was among the many children who made the move up from primary to secondary school during the Covid time. With…
What To Choose: Work Or University?
Great ideas don’t just pop up. They’re the result of collisions you have with other ideas and experiences. If you're at a loss for ideas, the solution is pretty simple…
Failure To Notice: Why You See The World As It Isn’t
Step back and look around. Can you see what’s really going on? Do you feel like you see the world in all its completeness and detail? Do you feel like you are…
Four Chinese Characters For When Shit Happens (And It Always Happens)
I love Chinese proverbs called 成語 chéngyǔ. They're an important aspect of Chinese culture and language. They are beautiful, elegant and subtle. They’re the reason why…
In Our Hurried Times, What Does It Mean To Pause?
On 22 September 2015, Jason Gay sent a tweet. It read: There's a guy in this coffee shop sitting at a table, not on his phone, not on a laptop, just drinking coffee…