Rest & Ponder

July 12, 2010 – 9:34 pm

Dr Steven Covey wrote, in The Seven Habits Of Highly Successful People, about our ability to choose our response to any situation, to shift our paradigm and see the situation in a different light.  The example he gives is the guy on a train who is letting his kids run riot, and we react by [...]

“I’d just do all of it!”

July 4, 2010 – 1:30 pm

Focus and how to choose between opportunities is a big topic for me, and I’m always interested t learn how successful entrepreneurs handle it. I was at a fantastic event on Friday on the subject of Influence, with profits going to Peace One Day, started by the amazing Jeremy Gilley (check it out, a brilliant [...]

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Attitudes are caught, not taught

June 21, 2010 – 9:58 pm

Attitudes are not taught, they are picked up – caught – by the people around us observing what we actually do. So we have to make sure what we do is in line with what we teach.

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Interruptions!

June 19, 2010 – 4:35 pm

You may have seen some of my blogs on the importance of Focus, both here on The Busy Fool and on Ecademy . One reason why I believe focus is essential to business success is the time lost to what software architects call “context-switching”. In a software context (excuse the pun!), that means [...]

If you want to be a leader …

October 17, 2009 – 4:20 pm

I had a thought today, in the shower. I was pondering how to get the concepts behind Opportunity Management in general and Opportunity Matrix™ in particular more widely known, how to get my ideas out there. In short, as I have big plans beyond just opportunity management, how to become a leader. 

What have you done today to make you feel proud?

August 17, 2009 – 8:05 pm

I am constantly inspired by the words of Heather Small’s “Proud” – some of the uplifting lyrics in it include:

“Look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I’ve left behind”

“I’m on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same”

“You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom”

“I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending”

“So what have you done today to make you feel proud?”

Each day I ask myself that question, xxx

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Taking the time to focus on the good stuff

February 4, 2009 – 8:50 pm

The story in the link below was sent to me last week by my friend, Richard Bellars, the leadership coach.  It’s been around a while, according to Urban Legends, and it’s about a violinist playing beautiful music at a New York Metro station, pretty much ignored by the bustling crowds.

This downturn will be a blessing in disguise for some

December 19, 2008 – 11:21 pm

As we hear about more and more big corporates shedding workers, I find myself wondering whether some – possibly most – of those who find themselves surplus to requirements will find redundancy is a fantastic opportunity masquerading as a catastrophe. It may be my jaundiced view of the corporate life, but in my experience the [...]

Why you should stick to what you enjoy …

December 9, 2008 – 10:05 am

Enjoyment-Performance Theory is derived from behavioural theory. Essentially it says that we perform better at tasks that we enjoy. And we enjoy tasks we can perform well – that’s why we can perform them well, otherwise we would never have done them enough to become practised at them. And because we enjoy them, and we [...]

What is Multiple Criteria Decision-Making?

November 11, 2008 – 7:18 pm

This is a copy of an article originally posted on the Opportunity Matrix™ website in January
Some decisions are very simple – for example: Shall I have a cup of tea, or a coffee? These are the decisions that don’t really have any long-term impact, and only affect the one making the decision. But in real [...]