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17
May
May
How to have it all
The having it all wars are on again. Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook's COO, is advising women to “lean in”: to
believe in themselves and be more pro-active if they want to
combine career success with a vibrant family life. Others,
such as Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter,...
08
May
May
Mindfulness and Living a Busy Life
A few years ago I started consciously watching the first
thing that came to mind as I awoke each morning.
More often than not what would appear during those first few
hazy moments was “The List”. The curtains I must
remember to fix, the...
01
May
May
How would you really enjoy spending your life?
What would you do if money was no object? How would you
really enjoy spending your life? Watch this inspiring
short film narrated by the British philosopher Alan Watts on
the topic of defining your life by what you enjoy doing.
As he...
07
Mar
Mar
How To Be A Successful Optimist: The Final Principle
The final principle of successful optimists is easy to say
and hard to do. It is simply this: try to kick out your
cynicism.
It’s hard to do because cynicism has become embedded in
our society and is even held up as wisdom. But...
27
Feb
Feb
Who Own's The Future?
We’re used to treating information as ‘free’,* but the
price we pay for the illusion of ‘free’ is only workable
so long as most of the overall economy isn’t about
information. Today, we can still think of information as the
intangible enabler of communications,...
11
Feb
Feb
How To Be A Successful Optimist: Principle No.7
The legendary computer engineer Howard H. Aitken once
advised, “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas.
If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down
people’s throats.”
Successful optimists understand that the beginning of many
endeavours involves being told you’re mad, bad...
17
Jan
Jan
Office Politics
The expression ‘office politics’ has got a bad name. We
think of them as something undesirable, unwholesome, toxic.
In my book they are far from bad, just an inevitable part of
professional life. They must be embraced with as much
humour, self-conscious deliberation and...
13
Dec
Dec
How To Be A Successful Optimist: Principle No.3
Parents often comment on the startling creativity of their
children. Pablo Picasso famously remarked, “Every child is
an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow
up.” I’ll go further. Every child is an artist, yes, but
also a scientist, engineer...
20
Sep
Sep
The Glorious Potential of Boredom
In advance of Sunday's sermon by visionary architect Will
Alsop, we grabbed five minutes to ask him a few questions
about his underlying thoughts on the subject of boredom.
You’ve remarked that if a company keeps its employees
working as a rule, that’s bad...
26
Jul
Jul
Mark Earls In Praise of Copying
There are few things we value today quite as much as
originality: we treasure original voices, unique visions and
unmistakable authenticity in the art and culture we consume;
we seek people and products and companies and places which
are like no other (that little...
10
Jul
Jul
High Achiever or Wide Achiever?
Is being a specialist the best way to use our talents? The
world certainly needs heart surgeons, and we can gain
personal satisfaction and social status from exercising our
expertise. Yet the cost of being a specialist or a high
achiever, is that we...
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