Live like Doctor Who
When I was 19 years old I took my youngest brother boating on a nearby pleasure lake. He was only six and as I rowed us both across the shallow Continue Reading →
Author Archives: The Churning
Why we need a new approach to leadership in a time of change
We are living through a time of unprecedented global change. Like it or not, huge changes are taking place in politics, the economy, technology, society, and of course the environment. Continue Reading →
The three stages of transition
Every significant change in our lives comes with an accompanying psychological and emotional transition. Some of these are small, others large. And at a time when nearly everything in our Continue Reading →
A recipe for creating inspiration in a time of change
If you want to create something new, your first task is to inspire yourself and other people to want to make it happen. Or as the poet and pilot Antoine de Saint Exupéry Continue Reading →
You will never reach your destination if…
Winston Churchill famously said: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” This time of change is bringing us many ‘barking Continue Reading →
Choosing your destiny
The word ‘destiny’ can mean different things to different people, so it is important to be clear about the meaning we are using here, as part of our journey towards Continue Reading →
Opportunities and threats do not exist
When I was still fairly fresh out of business school I was asked to prepare a strategic business plan for a half billion dollar pan-European technology company. The industry was Continue Reading →
You can’t just manage your way through change, you have to lead
The brains of our ancestors evolved to notice change because change might mean one of three things: food, sex, or death. When so much of our world is changing, all Continue Reading →
Put on your own oxygen mask first…
Whenever we travel by plane, every pre-flight safety check tells us exactly the same thing: “In the event of an emergency, oxygen masks will drop down from above your head…” Continue Reading →
What does ‘antifragile’ mean?
We are living through a time of extraordinary change. And like the exponential growth of a virus, the pace of that change is accelerating. Each change on its own is Continue Reading →