Master the art of focus and avoid skiing into trees.

For us, vibrancy is the means by which people come alive to their full potential. It is both the input and the output which enables the outcome of getting to who, how and where we want to be.

One of life’s sayings that has always resonated with me is ‘we are architects of our own reality’ and it turns out to be true, just not in the way I thought it was.

A few years ago now I was asked by a prestigious business school to contribute a piece to a book they were in the process of producing.

If asked to comment on your standard of living, what would you say? This blog post explores a new definition of standard of living.

If someone whom you judge to be credible and reliable told you that they had seen a ghost in the hallway of their house, what would you think? How might you react and what would you say? And why do the answers to these questions matter to you as a leader?

It might sound paradoxical or even heretical to challenge the concept of best practice, but issues can arise when it becomes more of a ritual or a habit than an intelligently creative and protective tool. How many of your people understand not just what to do but why it’s done that way?

In this post we look at going above and beyond – the ability to rise above the current challenge and look beyond it for the way forward, and the speed with which this happens.