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Embracing Failure
All successful people know that failure is a necessary part of growth and innovation. From failure comes feedback and from feedback comes learning, iteration, adaptation and building new conceptual and physical models. In our society failure is often not tolerated…
Posted in On Success
Conscious Leadership
This month I have found myself reflecting on a range of complex professional situations from a “theatre in action” perspective. Each of these situations has required me to grow. I am simultaneously feeling challenged, inspired and excited by the complexity,…
Posted in On Leadership
Musings from the Mind and It’s Potential Conference
This year’s Mind and Its Potential Conference was a delightful smorgasbord of speakers and researchers who shared their ideas, thoughts and findings with us. Here are some of their key messages… Tony Buzan – There are an infinite number…
Posted in On Balance
Respect, Simplicity and Beauty
As I am writing this newsletter I am sitting at Narita airport in Tokyo after having spent 2 weeks here in Japan. This is my first visit to Japan and I thought I would reflect on some of my observations…
Posted in On Happiness
Intent- Aligning for 2015
Recently I ran an event with the AFP Women’s Network for International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day has been running since 1908 and celebrates the accomplishments of women’s equality around the world. At the event we had 3 guest…
Posted in On Self Organisation
Mindfulness Practice
We have somewhere between 60,000 and 890,000 thoughts a day! Most of those thoughts are not useful but rather a distraction. Distraction is our biggest timewaster. It takes us away from focusing on what is most important to us. Thoughts…
Posted in On Balance
Intent – Making it Happen
The beginning of the new year is always a refreshing time to revisit and realign ourselves to our intent for the coming year. I hear a lot of people talk about their intentions for 2015, rather than their intent. The…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing
Growing a Bigger Mind
The world is more volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and urgent than ever before and research shows that less than 5% of leaders globally are functioning from their highest cognitive potential. Robert Kegan describes it as being “in over our heads!”…
Posted in On Running Your Brain
Duality and Harmony
This weekend saw the 100 year remembrance of the ANZAC’s landing at Gallipoli. While some of our children were in Canberra, Helmut, Emma and I went to the ANZAC service in Jindabyne. As always I experience deep confusion, sadness and…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing