It’s easy to downplay the things that are happening right in front of our nose: climate change, the beginning of the financial crises, a rift forming in a relationship or friendship is starting to go sideways. It is equally easy to downplay the potential impact that we can have as an individual in these situations....
Occasionally, idea generation can be a bottleneck. In particular, “out of the box” ideas. With some practice though, we find even radical ideas are cheap (kind of like goals…) and abundant. The critical step very quickly becomes action – the work to put the idea in motion. Even when our emotional landscape isn’t optimal, it...
When we present someone with a new idea, there is a point where we are asking them to jump over a canyon, or a gap. To change the way they are doing something, or to change a belief. A leap. This could be a sale, or an idea, or even inviting someone into a new...
Around 1936, Sylvan Goldman headed up a supermarket chain – he noticed that when people shopped with baskets, there was a point at which they couldn’t carry any more. From here, they stopped shopping – there was a constraint on how much they could buy. The first step was that he instructed staff in the...
Expressing a point of view sounds really easy, yet can be difficult. Unless what we are going to say definitely fits in with the framework around us, we’ve been largely conditioned not to do this since we were pretty young. So as we become an adult, it can be hard to express, to write, to...
As you engage in your new project, you are going to face resistance.* Maybe you’ve joined a gym, maybe you are creating a podcast – there will be all sorts of excuses to not begin, or reasons to walk away, why it’s not good enough, or why you don’t need to finish. However, if you...
Often the topic of “connecting” to the people you want to work with comes up. How do I reach them? Of course, the first step is an empathy deep dive – understanding their world view and where do they hang out? What are they into? Second though, is to realise that we can connect passively,...
When we drill to the core of a movement, conversation or even behaviour, we often find an interesting question around utility and workability. What is this actually for? Is it actually as workable as I think it is? There is some utility in being able to run a marathon in sub 3 hours. However, there...
