Freedom FROM or Freedom TO
Well now, that’s a curious thought. Is freedom defined by the chains (i.e. freedom FROM) or by what is released (i.e. freedom TO) And, of course, it’s both, but when…
Read More Turning “I should…” into “I will…”
In the last edition of Making Change Real, The Problem With Shoulds, we looked at how, if we're not careful, we can end up should-ing all over ourselves (I owe…
Read More The problem with “shoulds”
Let me make an informed guess: Right now, when it comes to making a change you want to make happen, there's something that you didn't do, even though you knew…
Read More Where do you get your boundaries?
In the final couple of years of my corporate career, a colleague and I had some pretty heated debates about bounded reality. At this stage, I was already clear in…
Read More What if we’re wrong about personal transformation?
Personal transformation is one of those phrases. Like authenticity... empathy... leverage... we use them as short-hand to distill down complex concepts into bite-size chunks. In many ways, we live in…
Read More The Misfit Performance Paradox
If we are to believe every SOP, policy and guideline ever published about performance management, we might be easily convinced that the world worked to plan, in accordance with fundamental…
Read More What corporate detox really looks like
Recently, I've been writing about what it takes to move forward as a Corporate Misfit. This short excerpt from The Way Through The Mountains talks about the reality of being…
Read More 10 Questions to ask of your plan
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Like it or not we all have Blind Spots we can't seem them and we can't see within them Yet they're the reason so many plans…
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