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