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Place
There is a bridge over a small river a couple of miles from where I live in Somerset. It is one of my favourite places to visit. It’s nothing spectacular. Pretty ordinary really. You probably wouldn’t take much notice of … Continue reading
Koan
Problem solving skills are highly sought after in both the academic and business worlds. Institutions such as schools and universities teach them as a core part of many courses and structured training. Leaders are expected to demonstrate good problem solving … Continue reading
Sparkle
It is easy to get mentally trapped into steering a steady course through life. Life is not a smooth ride and there are many slips and trips to be had. It is natural to want to avoid these painful episodes as … Continue reading
Haiku
There is a special form of Japanese poetry called the Haiku. It’s format is 3 lines, containing 17 syllables – 5 in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third. With such a rigid and ordered … Continue reading
Sandals
Many great lines have been written to help us, but my personal favourites are the four lines at the end of verse 36 of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu: ‘The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the … Continue reading
Foundation
There is no society without people and no people without love. Love is the foundation for everything and without it we are baseless creatures snarling in the darkness. We cannot take love out of what we do – we must always … Continue reading
Glow
We all know someone who embodies the phrase ‘free spirit’. They are the dreamers, searchers and innovators in life, destined to shine their light briefly into our world and move on. Experimental, passionate, they pick us up and carry us … Continue reading
Stillness
There is a tendency in both our business and private lives to hide how we really feel. This can lead to us going a long way down a particular road before we are finally forced to admit that it wasn’t … Continue reading
Loss
Around 500 BCE, the Buddha said that life is suffering. This was such an important revelation for him that it was the first of his 4 Noble Truths. Today, over 2500 years later we may use different words or longer … Continue reading
Challenge
One of the most over-used words in business and public life today is ‘challenge’. It has become a noun, usually employed in the context of euphemistically referring to some major foul up: “Yes, the fact that our MD ran off with … Continue reading
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