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The risk of not wanting to know
There is risk in not knowing, but there is also risk in not wanting to know. Many of the risks that your project and business will face...
Nov 13, 20202 min read


Test v Experiment
When you test something, you want to see if it works. When you do an experiment, you want to understand how it works. My daughter told me...
Nov 6, 20202 min read


The big tree
Outside my kitchen window stands a magnificent ash tree. Every year around October its leaves start to fall. At the end of the summer,...
Oct 29, 20201 min read


Do you remember me?
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to send him an article that I wrote while working as a lecturer at the University of...
Oct 17, 20202 min read


Starting with “why” and navel gazing
I recently read in a newsletter that starting with “why” has done more harm than good: it has given a generation of professionals the...
Oct 10, 20202 min read


On purpose stories- I need your help.
I’ve spent the last months trying to catch up on my long reading list. I haven’t made huge progress, to be honest. Despite carrying a...
Oct 3, 20202 min read


Use the power of now
I used to think that storytellers are great at talking about the future, at drawing a picture of how our lives could potentially be if we...
Sep 25, 20202 min read


Avoid bad stories
It’s difficult to live with bad writing, so sometimes we decide not to write or tell a story. We want to avoid bad stories, but this is...
Sep 18, 20201 min read


Copy and paste
My oldest child has gone back to school, and the COVID restrictions still in place mean that all his homework is now done online. I...
Sep 11, 20202 min read


Wanting to lose
A couple of weeks ago I had a conversation with a friend who had built a successful business and managed to retire quite early in life....
Sep 4, 20203 min read
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