My last post was on Meaningful Contribution. I talked about three questions about the work you are doing: does it serve others? do you do it well? and do you love doing it? The 4 Paths in our Working Life Taking two of those questions: does it serve others? and do you love doing it? … Read more
Failure is Carelessness, Success is Consistency This Sunday I was at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin to watch the key Six Nations Rugby game between Ireland and England. England won. The Irish guy sitting next to me says: “We were by far the better team.” I said “The score doesn’t show that. We were more … Read more
No written word, no spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be Nor all the books on all the shelves Its what the teachers are themselves Anonymous, quoted by John Wooden (at 4:12 in the video below) What is True Success? John Wooden’s simple answer: to know you did your best. It is … Read more
We are coming up to Global Entrepreneurship Week #GEW next week, November 12-18. Organizations all over the world will be putting on events sharing the entrepreneur experience as widely as possible. Events in Spain are listed at the bottom of this post. Entrepreneurship 2.0: The rise of the Growth Hacker. In 1995 the web consisted … Read more
I recently finished a 4 day, intense persuasive communication course with 142 Executive MBAs. We heard almost 300 speeches. I worked with the coaching team of Florian, Tobias, John and Tony. Each told a story of the person, the change they seek in the world, the reasoning. By the end of the week, these stories were … Read more
Last week, I listened to Jim Collins at the Growth Summit in Barcelona. He shared 4 hours with us via video. There were three concepts that he shared with us that really struck a chord with me. Today I wanted to put down my thoughts about the final concept that Jim shared: Return on Luck. … Read more
You only need to choose 2 out of 3 for success: Be like-able Do great work Deliver on time If you are like-able and deliver on time, people will come back to you. If you do great work, and deliver on time you will make it. If you do great work, and are like-able, people … Read more
I was recently interviewed by Augere, one of the worlds leading coach development organisations. They conduct an anual review of the state of leadership in Spain and Latin America. The interview (in pdf) is available in english here; y en castellano aqui. Some of our discussion: – do you agree that work related stress is bigger … Read more
John Whitehead, co-head of Goldman Sachs in the 1970s, wrote the following 10 commandments that guided their business development efforts: Don’t waste your time going after business you don’t really want. The boss usually decides— not the assistant treasurer. Do you know the boss? It is just as easy to get a first-rate piece of … Read more
Michael asks “What should you do when you don’t know what to do?” In the times when he felt lost, out of his depth, uncertain, unsure whether he was the right person in the role… All the great moments of self-doubt that I know I share… His mentor’s answer? “Do the next right thing.” The … Read more