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Stepping into leadership.
Confidence and the imposter.
- A question to help you navigate perfectionism
- The greatest aerial skier of all time
- I can’t touch my toes…
- A story most leaders tell themselves
- What diet coke and red wine can teach us about mistakes
- Shorts in a job interview
- Charts, boots and opinions that don’t matter
- Why fear explains weird behaviour (like arguing about broccoli)
- A question for your imposter
- On dealing with critics
- A question to make you world class
- A collection of stories I told myself on Thursday
- Two questions for getting out of your own way
- Basketball and the stories we tell ourselves
- A question for self-starters
- A question for when you lock yourself out of your house
- Relax your face
- Did you know?
- What Sonder feels like
- Critics and gravity
- A common and troublesome question
- A reminder on imposter syndrome
- Making it up as we go
- Origin stories and imposters
- An alternative to othering ourselves
- The thing about growing pains
- If fear were an onion
- An excuse that doesn’t serve you
- All the feels
- On being extraordinary
- A reminder that it’s okay to say these three words…
- Walking flaws
- A note for perfectionists
- When in doubt…
- Everything is a story
- What do you fear?
- Hiding behind comparisons
- What if imposter syndrome is a good thing?
- The story I tell myself
- Two voices and some noodles
- The power of 10,000 readers… Even when you don’t have them
- Ogres, onions and Dilbert comics
- Stories
- A universal and unspoken truth
- There are no original ideas
- You’ll never regret a swim
- Why Ace Ventura was ahead of his time
Getting unstuck.
- Action creates information
- Why goal setting is more important than goal achieving
- Blackberries and experiments
- 5 steps to getting unstuck
- A question to enable problem-solving
- A question to help you help yourself
- A lesson on writing
- A question for that goal of yours
- Two questions for the great resignation/reshuffle/reevaluation
- Mood follows action
- What might happen if…
- A question to help you level up
- A question on measuring success
- A question to help you get unstuck
- Two easy (and confronting) ways to reveal what you value
- 16 reasons making an arbitrary numbered list is the best way to get unstuck and spark possibility
- A question for navigating the hard part
- Postponing is rarely a good strategy
- A question to spark progress
- Birds and change
- A question to start your day
- A (painful) question for picking your next project
- A question for your next decision
- The myth of the right way
- A question for holding patterns
- A question for when you feel stuck
- A better title for my last post
- Momentum is underrated
- The punchline of self-development books
- A useful lens for making decisions
- Striving
- Beyond either/or
- Working for free
- Before starting
- Decisions and outcomes
- Thrashing on thrashes
- Hide and seek
- Instead of waiting…
- Popularity is overrated
- The reason you haven’t made that decision
- One question there’s always an answer to
- What sweet potato can teach us about decisions
- Mad scientists aren’t mad
- The thing about sprinting
- A constraint or an opportunity?
- There’s no such thing as being stuck
- The dreaded ‘G’ word
- There’s no time for a witty title
- The instruction manual
- The right time
Getting better at anything.
- Deliberate and intentional practice
- Rules worth following
- A strategy for growing your business/career
- Creativity and pancakes
- Mistakes vs failures
- Tennis practice
- Showing up is a skill
- Six questions from Atomic Habits
- A question to make you groan
- Get better together
- A question for your next project or job
- A reminder
- Attitude is a skill
- A question on your habits
- Find and Replace
- So you read lots of books…
- How did you get so good at ____?
- An oversimplified guide to learning a new skill
- 2,000 year old wisdom
- Passion isn’t innate
- 9 lessons from 100 days of ocean swims
- Noticing and improving
- Showing up
- Two times
- Note to self
- Noodling like a chef
- An open mind
- Postures and prompts
- The most underrated way to learn
- The truth about inspiration…
- Deliberate reflection
- A gentle nudge
- The magic of 1%
- You’ve never had a kip?
- Put down your kale smoothie and listen up
Meetings, time and busyness.
- Three questions on rushing
- Yet another question for your next meeting
- A question to help with prioritising
- More wisdom from improv
- A scary question about your schedule
- A question for any upcoming meeting/project
- A question on how you’re spending your time
- The pain of not paying attention
- A question for your workday in 2022
- Two questions for working in a hybrid world
- A question for your overworked self
- A question for your to-do list
- A question on how you spend your time
- A question for your next meeting
- A question for your next Zoom/Teams meeting
- A question for your next meeting
- The problem with back to back
- The hybrid workplace
- In a flurry
- A most memorable sticky note
- Something to optimise for
- The meeting default worth challenging
- Your next meeting
- Pour over coffee
- Hats and priorities
- Balance takes time
- Everything costs something
- Overheard on a Zoom call
- The mistake and opportunity of remote work (beyond doing your laundry)
- Surrounds matter
- Why is unencumbered thinking limited to just 5min a day?
- Why video conferencing is more powerful than a face to face meeting
- Why being busy doesn’t make you important
Difficult conversations.
- Instead of ‘difficult’ conversations
- 53 great questions to help you navigate difficult conversations
- A framework for difficult conversations
- Same same, but different
- A question to help understand what makes someone tick
- Irrationality
- A skill for understanding
- Leading the witness
- When in doubt, look for the fear
- Rabbit holes
- Context and worldviews
- An acronym for practicing empathy
- Indoor plants and humans
- Places empathy hides
- Empathy is a choice
- Questions to cultivate empathy
- What empathy sounds like
- Assume one thing
- The perils of missing information
- The person that’s annoying you…
- An alternative to interrupting someone
- An equation to rival Pythagoras
- Just like me
- Default response
- The weirdest advice you’ve ever received
- We are all irrational
Feedback and coaching.
- My new favourite acronym for all leaders
- O’s and C’s
- Four tips for asking better questions
- A question when giving feedback
- The truth about great teachers
- A question when asking for feedback
- Taking the dread out of a 1:1
- My dad, the wise guru
- Three rules for asking great coaching questions
- Out loud
- The question fork
- Another lesson from maths class
- When giving feedback
- When receiving feedback (and yes, we will receive it)
- What we can learn from maths teachers
- The thing about blindspots
- What to do with space
- One question you can’t ask enough
- One simple rule for giving feedback
- Don’t steal the revelation
Building your team.
- Feeling heard
- What conditions are you creating?
- Dadding and leadership
- How are we handling?
- Two questions to ask your team
- Do you compete or collaborate?
- The disconnection problem
- Unreasonable hospitality
- Leading with humility
- What humility sounds like
- Who’s on your team?
- Humility is a superpower
- A question for those managing other humans
- A question for leadership teams
- A question for leading a hybrid team
- A question for your colleagues
- Collaboration is a two-way conversation
- A question about questions
- A Rabbi walks into a bar*
- Your team
- More lessons from improv
- The hyphenated word worthy of a noodle
- We can learn a lot from improv
- 8 reasons why a great leader is like a trampoline
- Five things the X-Men can teach us about culture
Communicating so it lands.
- What Humpty Dumpty can teach us about storytelling
- What design thinking can teach us about communicating effectively
- A question when creating your next slide deck
- Start with who
- Babies and changemaking
- Sharing our work
- Why we should tell more stories
- No one is listening to your icebreaker
- One question to rule them all
Leading through change.
- Leadership quests
- Turnover is okay
- The magic blue table
- My mum, the change agent
- A reminder for leaders
- A question for the chaos
- When your oven explodes…
- Stop signs, permits and patterns
- Permission to change your mind
- Effective change making…
- Default response part 2
- Control the controllables
- So, what qualification did you get?
Questions to sit with.
- An underrated question for problem-solving
- A question to shift your perspective
- My biggest aha of 2022
- A question I’m noodling on
- Some questions on opinions
- A question on rules
- A question to zoom in on
- Two questions on celebrating the wins
- A question on how we manage ourselves
- A question of self-reflection
- Information that creates stories
- An alternative question to ‘what’s the best practice’?
- A question I can’t get out of my head
- Things that don’t scale
- A question on recognising growth
- Journal prompts worth trying
- A question on questions
- The trap of anticipation
- Disproportionate returns
- Worldviews and chocolate frogs
- Customers, clients, colleagues, and collaborators
- A question on showing up
- A question that haunts me
- A question I’m noodling on
- Context and repetition
- New people
- A simple process for end of year
- When is the last time you…
- An underrated technology
- What if…
- Where’s the tension?
- The choice to be generous
- Can you write something using only questions?
- The give without the take
- A story of abundance
- Noodling on noodles
- Nine more reframes to noodle on
- Sparking joy (without the tidying up)
- An alternative to “hustle and grind”
- A replacement for the word “but”
- A reframe worth considering
- A posture for the holidays
- 25(ish) questions that might change your life
What I'm reading.
Reading notes, book roundups and the year-end question lists.
- The questions I’m asking myself for 2023
- Recent reads and listens – October edition
- Recent reads and listens – September edition
- Recent reads and listens – August edition
- Recent reads and listens – July edition
- Recent reads and listens – May edition
- Recent reads and listens – April edition
- Recent reads and listens – March edition
- Recent reads and listens – February edition
- Recent reads and listens – January edition
- Four simple questions for an awesome 2022
- Recent reads and listens – December edition
- Recent reads and listens – November edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – October edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – September edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – August edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – July edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – June edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – May edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – April edition
- Recent reads (and listens) – March edition
- Recent reads – February edition
- Recent reads – January edition
- 21 Questions for 2021
- Questions to noodle on ahead of 2020
- 20 more noodles from 20 more books
- 20 noodles from 20 books
- 7 things I learned from Tribe of Mentors
- 15 more insights from 15 more books
- 15 insights from 15 books
- The most conflicting book you’ll ever listen to
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