the ‘old’ change management

September 9, 2010

                                                                            My friend Dick Axelrod from Chicago has a new book out – a revision to his ‘Terms [...]

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Solas 2010: art, faith and justice

June 28, 2010

A superb weekend at the first Solas festival this weekend. Solas ‘aims to celebrate, explore and develop connections between art, faith and justice within and beyond Scotland’ Excellent music, stimulating talks, great conversations, beautiful location, amazing weather.  Much food for thought too, and I will share more on this. For today, here is a poem shared by one [...]

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…we must think anew… (and make the space for others to do their own thinking!)

June 2, 2010

Superb talk by Ken Robinson on TED – lots in it, but this quote towards the start stuck me as particularly relevant to todays ‘climate.’ The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.  The occasion is piled high with difficulty.  And we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so [...]

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some of the amazing things happening in Dundee

March 31, 2010

You might have picked up from my blog that I’m a passionate advocate for the City of Dundee. As one of my voluntary roles, I’m part of the ‘Go Dundee’ core team which has a vision to connect people and make Dundee an even more positive place to be. For the Go Dundee meeting in [...]

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the tears that made the clyde

March 4, 2010

Was in glasgow on Thursday at Carol Craig’s (Chief Executive of the Centre for Confidence and Well Being) book launch – ‘The Tears that Made The Clyde.’ The book looks very interesting. This is a slightly longer blog post than normal, but thought it worth expanding a little on two excellent, succinct speeches. An excellent [...]

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managing your social networks

February 26, 2010

Look closely at the photo, it’s not as chaotic as it seems! (Image credit © Joe Lafferty: Kapoor’s superb kidney bean sculpture in Chicago) OK, so you’re on Facebook, but I think that’s just for friends… but it’s grown arms and legs! And, of course you may have started out on LinkedIn, but haven’t been [...]

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being strategic

February 25, 2010

One thing I often hear managers and leaders tell me is that they have been told they need to ‘be more strategic!’ that this is an important development area for them. Often this comes on the back of failing to be selected for a job, or at review with their boss. Image credit unknown – [...]

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dependency and the wizard of oz…

February 24, 2010

At a recent event on a leadership programme we’re facilitating, I had a flash of insight – in the form of a metaphor. In my enthusiasm, I jumped right in and shared the story – to many blank faces all round. When I asked my friend and co-facilitator, Alan about it afterwards he said he [...]

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Giving Dundee her memory back & re-imagining our future

December 4, 2009

Had a very interesting day yesterday (3rd Dec 09) – in the afternoon facilitating the launch of ‘Dundee Wave of Change‘ – part of the ‘Scottish Wave of Change‘ then, in the evening attending a book launch for ‘Dundee: Renaissance to Enlightenment. ‘Dundee Wave of Change‘ Almost forty folks from various backgrounds in the city [...]

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Innovation: challenge and resilience-the story of WD-40

October 21, 2009

I was in conversation with a leading CEO in Scotland recently who’s business is all about innovation.  We began to speak about innovation and he asked me if I knew what WD-40 was & where it came from. Of course, I knew, as an ex-engineer, that is is a water dispersant, hence the term WD.  [...]

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