The bureaucratic global demand for exacting policies and procedures has become stifling. The quest for ever-greater professionalism comes with an unintended cost: the price of being human. Large organisations and governments are increasingly driven by a desire to create consistent outcomes; so tied up in the quest for ‘perfection’ – afraid to get thing wrong […]
Systemic Leadership Development
By June 6, 2018 Leave a Comment
What is it that creates leadership? What makes someone choose to step up and lead? How can we systematically create more leadership in our community or organisations? These are the questions I have been working on, and developing answers to, in the past four years. Underlying all the work I do, there is a singular […]
Democratising Wisdom
By May 30, 2018 2 Comments
One moment in 2013 transformed my view of the world. It was during a lecture at Singularity University on the future of Biotech – a technology moving 3-5 times faster than Moore’s Law, without the world really understanding the implications of this. The speed of technology’s advancement and availability, and the upsides and downsides of […]
From Paralysis to Stillness
By May 23, 2018 8 Comments
In my life, I experienced two states of non-doing. From the outside, they might appear the same but on the inside, they are very different. Growing up, I was described as ‘lazy’. Every report card ever written about me had the phrase: “has the potential, but needs to try harder”. In the Western context, I […]
Taking Steps
By May 15, 2018 2 Comments
On a day by day basis, I believe I’m not very productive. Even looking at the work I do week by week and month by month, I’ll say I’m not too effective at all. But if I look at what I can achieve year by year, then, I start to celebrate my effectiveness. Over a […]
From Here to There
By May 9, 2018 11 Comments
There’s a great phrase from success coach Marshall Goldsmith that I often use – “What got you here won’t get you there.” Through many transition points in my life, I have realised this. During those realisations, I have often taken a step back to re-evaluate what I am doing. On a number of occasions, this […]
Meme Seeding
By October 25, 2017 24 Comments
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Less than an hour of my time has made more of a difference in the world than all my time put together. In 2014, I wrote a blog post on the subject of Ikigai. In that blog post, I merged two concepts to create something new. Essentially, […]
Mental Transition
By October 10, 2017 1 Comment
Why mental health? Of all the challenges there are to solve in the world, why is so much of my passion and time given to resolving mental health issues? For me, it is about understanding its future impact on society. I spent the first part of my entrepreneurial career as a direct marketer. Essentially, a […]
The Spectrum of Wellbeing
By September 20, 2017 5 Comments
Are you happy? ‘Yes,’ was the answer I consistently gave, throughout most of my life. On the surface, I genuinely believed this was the case, because I didn’t have a reference point to truly understand what happiness is. Sure, I had extreme highs – but I also had a lot of lows. My own particular […]
Parking Tickets and Broken Computers
By August 16, 2017 3 Comments
If two situations can provoke rage and frustration more than most, they are: receiving a parking ticket, and when a piece of technology breaks down. For some reason, these actions evoke puzzling levels of emotional response in us, considering that they involve inanimate objects. I wonder how these items manage to stir up such emotion. […]