If you want to understand what’s going on in Europe think safety nets. My feeling is that when people have easy access to too many safety nets they tend to lose their self-reliance. There is a wide spectrum to this. A few people have too much pride and accept little help from others. The majority [...]
I found this recently in Forbes. It’s a question asked of Stephen Covey and it’s good. If you had to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People over again, would you change anything? Explain. I would not. The sequence of the habits is the important thing. To win a public victory, you first need [...]
I had a conversation yesterday with the chairman of a big law firm. One of his prime responsibilities is getting associates to stay long enough to become a productive, satisfied, profitable partner. If he could raise the percentage of entry level associates who stay 15 years from 5 to 10% it would be a great [...]
More from Tony Blair’s autobiography; this is another quote about his difficult negotiations in Northern Ireland which started in 1997. “In conflict resolution, small things can be big things. This is not just about gripping, it is also about putting aside your view of what is important in favour of theirs. And not being prissy [...]
I’m reading Homer Kelly’s Golfing Machine by Scott Gummer. It’s a good tale particularly for people like me who think about golf a lot. It’s the story of how Homer Kelly constructed a golf instruction system that reflected his way of doing things. He was an engineer who was pretty good with the intricacies of [...]
As the workplace fills up with young people who have grown up in the digital information age, we’ve been asked to help their bosses, some just a few years older, coach and manage them. The young people, commonly known as millennials or Digital Natives, have a wealth of know-how with tools that have the power [...]
Politics seems to be pretty polarized these days. Left and right. Either there aren’t too many people in the middle or they’re the group with other things to focus on. The trouble with left and right seems to be that people can only see it from their own direction and there’s suffering in finding out [...]
