Sociopaths and psychopaths – words we hear, easy to generalise and make assumptions about without much or any real knowledge to go on – BUT potentially negative pre-conclusions? Both display challenging behaviours but differ significantly: sociopaths tend to be impulsive and struggle to form stable relationships due to their volatile nature, while psychopaths, known for…
Thinking leads to language. Language, presupposes others’ thinking, thinkings that ‘one’ needs to learn from that language. That can overpower new thinking and almost make it redundant, especially if the thinker is powerful. The thinker, thinking that they are the solution; that thinker, often being the ‘boss’, overlooking that their real job is to be…
Things to think about when considering people, you interact with and even as close as to you, interacting with others. Almost everything can be solved when we move the responsibility to self and take it away from the “if lonely they ‘didn’t’ sentiment. Almost everything can be solved when we change our expectations and paradigms…
PwC has announced it would retreat from all government consulting. Can anyone imagine a diabolical result from such a background as diabolical as this current Government scandal and how PwC had addressed it? If this behaviour is proven, as it seems it has been, they how could any client…
Networking that works. Check the network is within your target market. Have a genuine desire to learn about others. Ask questions, listen and ask about what they said. Then listen again and ask again. This will ensure the other person is interested – they are talking about themselves and you are listening. Don’t add onto…
I received two emails (poorly identified and set out) telling me of changes to pricing as of June 2023. One for electricity and one for gas. I rang the supplier, I waited for 28 minutes and then I am told the best they can do is 6% of the standard rate. They don’t mention that…
Equal value – partners appreciating and honouring and respecting and caring for each other. It starts maybe with how we feel about ourselves. We all carry baggage of various depths and severity from our childhood onwards – how we were treated, how we coped, the mechanisms we employed to survive. We live with expectations, and…
Addiction – Who I am today need be nothing like who I was, or who others said I was. Who I am tomorrow will be a collection of who I was, who others saw me as and interacted as if I was, who I can determine I would like to be, not want to be. And,…
There are many tools that can help break away from fixed thinking, the negative impact of paradigms on new thinking, the negative effect of group and pre-emptive thinking abundant in Command and Control negative environments. The topics below are selected at random as somewhere to start. It could be argued that there is no specific…
Meeting maybe the biggest Leadership challenge of not only this decade or century but potentially all time is the ability to work on The ability for leaders to listen The ability for leaders to ‘really’ share decision making The ability of those under management to find ways to break through The belief that people under…
