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Future-proof your dreams #3: Prepare for disaster
Predicting the future is impossible, but all your goals live there, so you can’t avoid thinking about it. We need plans to channel our time, energy,...
Strategy and strategic planning
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Future-proof your dreams #2: Keep the dream alive
Predicting the future is impossible, but all your goals live there, so you can’t avoid thinking about it. We need plans to channel our time, energy,...
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Future-proof your dreams #1: Start with strategy
Our hopes, dreams, and plans live in an unpredictable future. We need plans to channel our time, energy, and money, but we have no idea what will...
5 min read
Stay alive in 2025: Why strategy is a survival skill this year
Winging it is a death wish in 2025. If you don’t know what you want, the next 10 months are going to swallow you whole. Never fear: strategy will...
3 min read
Are you having the wrong argument? The value of focus
I love a good argument, especially as part of a strategic planning process. In a good argument, everyone’s point of view is fully and respectfully...
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4 steps to playing the long game
How was your 2020, overall? Mine was a nightmare, to be honest.
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How running a marathon became resilience skills training
I ran my first marathon in September this year, in beautiful Tauranga. It was one of the big-ticket items on my bucket list and with a milestone...
4 min read
Before you restructure, read this
In a client mentoring session on Friday, I was looking forward to hearing how a job interview had gone. After an extended secondment and a long...
1 min read
A strategic choice a day keeps the existential dread at bay
Do you have everything you want? Do you have the resources to close the gap?
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The consequences of your commitment
Are you struggling to make progress on the most important things to you?
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How to ask bigger questions
Most meetings and workshops are a waste of time. They're full of people resolving trivial issues that could be handled by email or delegation with...
3 min read
Unwinnable games
On Sunday, I got busy organising and optimising for a packed week. Between school runs, home maintenance disasters, travel and work, I knew I was in...
1 min read
Stop being a hero
I used to think I was a bit of a hero—I was even proud of it. Beating the odds, I shifted my life story from high school dropout, teen mum, and...
3 min read
Creativity, strategy and magic
I’ve spent my life in a quiet awe of musicians and creative people. People that seem to be able to create beauty out of nowhere. What an incredible...
4 min read
Tell, don't sell: how to get what you want at work
I had a great conversation with an IT leader in Australia this week. She was doing good work, but she was feeling increasingly frustrated by people...
2 min read
Good decisions
When COVID hit, many of us experienced – and are still experiencing – serious financial uncertainty. Businesses lost revenue, people lost jobs, and...
5 min read
Find your why journey update #1
I recently sent out a Wednesday Wisdom about a traumatic time I've experienced in my personal life and business.
3 min read
Do more of what makes you awesome
Did you ever have career counselling at school? The first question you were asked was probably something like "what are you good at?" or 'what are...
2 min read
Stave off mediocrity with perspective and purpose
I read this little anecdote by Donald Miller a few years ago, and it’s always stayed with me:
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Push out your payoff
How much time do you spend thinking about the future? How far out are you thinking? An interesting study on mental time travel1, discovered that, on...
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Internal functions are the strategy engine room
Have you ever heard that cliché about the janitor at NASA? You know, the guy who knew his job was putting astronauts on the moon? Like most...
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Connect, don't control: turning strategy into action
There are four reasons why strategy implementation is so difficult: we get stuck on details, work in silos, go too slow and are scared of the...
