Life is like a jigsaw. There are thousands of pieces, seemingly disconnected, that either fit or conflict. A missing, broken or duplicate piece causes problems. Staring at it from a 30,000 foot view sometimes helps, sometimes it helps to look at it from 30 centimetres away. In the midst of…

Leading your team into continuous education and development The end of the beginning Photo by Gautam Arora on Unsplash Today marks my youngest son’s final day of Nursery, Scotland’s state provided child pre-school education service for ages 3–5 years old. It will be marked by us at home as he hasn’t been able to go…

Taking bigger dreams and implementing them through clarifying value, defining a process and creating serendipity Photo by UX Indonesia on Unsplash Last week I wrote about the need to pursue bigger goals. You’ve heard the quote “Execution without Vision is a nightmare. But Vision without Execution is a hallucination”? …

Why we need to face our own fear of loss, push out our boundaries and how we practically do that Photo by Cristofer Jeschke on Unsplash As we unwind lockdown in many countries around the world, it’s easiest to relapse into past behaviours and patterns of operating. Now is a…

Photo by @richardgrant88 It felt only right to write about racism this week given our current moment sparked by the murder of George Floyd. I’m very wary, as a white person, writing anything here — because of my ignorance, culpability and because there are many others better suited to write…

As countries return to a post-lockdown work pattern, there are rising questions around strategy for 2020 and 2021. Creators are imagining and launching new projects. …

To sign up for my weekly newsletter which includes articles like this and more, go to https://theweeklydistillation.substack.com/ We can’t control the context we live in We are heading for a relatively rapid return to about 75–80% of “normal” in the next 3 months it would appear. In China, factories began restarting in March and were rapidly back to…

Learning in the midst of the storm

“After Berlin had finally surrendered to the Red Army at 3 pm on May 2nd, 1945, straggling columns of German prisoners, many half-crazed by the ordeal through which they had come, began to be marched to prison camps on the city’s outskirts. Many laughed hysterically and could not stop laughing…