Sticking with values, I want to expand on an element of Aristotle's golden mean from my last article. I call it productive tension. Look …
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How Aristotle and Buddhism can help define your core values.
Too many conversations about values start by asking are they right or wrong. But for most organisations “How do we use them?” is a more …
A new tool for making promises you can keep
On the bottom shelf of my bookcase, I've got a small library of books and a stack of papers that explore promises and commitments. The …
Put play to work
When an organisation puts a 'fun place to work' in their values, they often mean a games room, funky furniture and kombucha on tap. Not how …
Set your upper bounds and march to success
Taking measured action over and over is decidedly unsexy. Especially given it runs counter to the more common 'splashy launch' mindset. Yet, …
In a game of experience happenstance, you lose.
Experience without expectations is unthinkable — literally. What I believe will happen plays a prominent part in how I feel about what does …
The lost valley of unheroic work
Organisations are made of unheroic work — those thousands of everyday actions and decisions that keep your particular engine turning. Hidden …
Avoid statement creep and focus on what matters most
You know the page. There might even be one in your organisation. At the top is purpose, and from there, the cascade continues …
Beware the noise of other people’s ideas.
The book "Noise, A Flaw in Human Judgement" by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein and Oliver Sibony explores the information and choices that …
How to make the most of your values.
Values are not there as a billboard for your goodness. Frankly, I don’t care what someone who doesn’t work for me, with me and buy from me …