During a recent lengthy morning commute, I listened to the Knowledge Project podcast, where host Shane Parrish interviewed Aaron Dignan. …
Unheroic Work
Make a Done List
Hands up if you have a ‘to-do’ list. I suspect nearly everyone does. Now hands up if you have a ‘done’ list. Fewer if any, hands in the air. …
What we owe each other
When a brand's store of value overflows, there's usually an undercurrent of I care about what you care about going on between me and you. It …
Genuine engagement is found in activity
Forbes Magazine describes the idea of staff engagement as "the emotional commitment the employee has to the organisation and its goals". And …
A secret weapon for managing your values
The continuing effort to keep values in balance tempts many organisations to measure and manage them in people's performance and behaviours. …
Every choice is an opportunity to show your purpose
Turn in any direction these days, and you'll trip over people talking about their purpose. This is not a bad thing; it's essential to …
How good intentions become bad communications
It's 1990, and a Stanford University graduate student in psychology named Elizabeth Newton is using a game to test how people communicate. …
Your values will benefit from some (productive) tension
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 …
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 …