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 […]
Shifting Realities
By August 9, 2017 13 Comments
I was in a coffee conversation with a friend last week that helped me to realise something. We all live and create our own individual reality. When our differing views on reality emerge in public, they can cause friction between ourselves and other people. From politics and religion, to nations and tribes – the world […]
Raising the State
By December 30, 2015 3 Comments
Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post on forgiveness – which proved to receive quite a bit of feedback. Most of it has been overwhelmingly positive, but there have been a couple of questions worth further consideration. Some people asked: ‘What if I can’t forgive?’ Some of you find it an impossible task to […]
Imaginal Cells
By December 9, 2015 21 Comments
Have you heard of imaginal cells? Although they are associated with insect life-cycles – for me, they are a great metaphor for the way the world is undergoing transformation at the moment. Imaginal cells are the ones that create the incredible process of metamorphosis that occurs when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. These cells […]
The Abyss
By December 3, 2015 4 Comments
Last year, I ran a life-changing adventure. I took a group of people on a journey into the unknown. They were asked to turn up at an airport with their passports, ready to spend a number of days on an adventure they knew nothing about. This adventure was designed to challenge everyone who went, but […]