Conor writes about Intentional Leadership and Building Self Belief in those around you
Managers and Leader are very different animals. Management is about Control. Management controls 1 of 3 things: Quality Time Money Management is always about tradeoffs. If you want quality, you have to sacrifice time or money. If you want fast, you have to sacrifice quality or money. If you want cheap, you have to sacrifice… Continue reading Management is Control, Leadership is Example
This video is about 4 ways to bring more luck into your life. We Make our own Luck. Why do some people lead happy successful lives whilst other face repeated failure and sadness? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves stuck in jobs they hate? Can unlucky people do anything… Continue reading How to Be Lucky (4 Ways to Improve your Luck in Life)
The path of the company and the person that takes no little bets, never risks an error, never risks a mistake… is to slowly die and then risk everything on one big “Hail Mary” pass. What’s the worst life strategy for a person? and also for a company? Complacency. Rely on what has always worked.… Continue reading No little bets and then a Hail Mary pass
4 Approaches to handle anxiety as shared with me several years ago by Pep Mari, psychologist to the Spanish Olympic team. (Check out his youtube channel here, full of great tips, in Spanish) How to Handle Anxiety: Avoid – don’t go into the situation that causes you to feel anxiety in the first place Manage… Continue reading How to Handle Anxiety (especially when speaking in public)
This video is about 4 mindsets that we strive for in a Vistage Group Chair, and can also serve to bring out the best in the people around any leader. The 4 Leadership Mindsets for Growing the people around you are: Care-frontation Assertive Vulnerable Exploratory Care-Frontation A bit more on the word “carefrontation”. It is… Continue reading 4 Mindsets that Build Strong Leaders Around You
This summer I read “The Penguin History of the World”. “The entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book”. Conor’s World History in 1 Paragraph World history 9000BC to Today: The life of the poor was shit under every civilisation. It was… Continue reading The History of the World
Got a speech to give? What should I say? That is a terrible place to start. What’s the most important question you can ask yourself before preparing a speech? It was fun to make this short “elevator pitch” video with the production team at @iesebschool only 7 floors to make my point!
The founder of Strategic Coach, and one of my favourite podcasters, Dan Sullivan plans to live to 156 years old. It will allow him to see 3 different centuries (19,20,21). What will it take for him to live that long? He’ll need to eat well. He’ll need to stay physically and mentally fit. He’ll need… Continue reading How to Live a Long Life: Friends, Money & Purpose
Paul Graham is founder of Y Combinator. Together with Tim Urban, Seth Godin and Derek Sivers these are true artists of the blog format. “Second order thinking” is a big part of Paul’s approach. Second order thinking is looking for non-obvious rules that improve decision making, efficiency and quality of life. Check out the Python… Continue reading Paul Graham’s best posts
I have this blog. It has been going for over 10 years. Above all other benefits, writing blog posts helps me clarify what I think. I published my first post on 25th January 2009. It was a paragraph from a book I was reading that I thought was valuable advice. I have written ideas on… Continue reading 11 Reasons Every Leader should have a Blog