The Work Isn’t Bad, Just Comfortably Forgettable.
The Sunday Dispatches is for the talented, hungry, and perhaps a little rebellious. Each week I focus on one thing and three prompts.
Taste — the difference
The Sunday Dispatches is for the talented, hungry, and perhaps a little rebellious. Each week I focus on one thing and three prompts.
Stop performing. Start paying attention.
The Sunday Dispatches is for the talented, hungry, and perhaps a little rebellious. Each week I focus on one thing and three prompts.
Ashby's Law
💢The Sunday Dispatches is for the talented, hungry, and perhaps a little rebellious. Each week I focus on one thing and three prompts. Encouraging you to pause and think. Notice — Question — Act. 1/ Notice I find a lot of book list posts are far too long — 60+. They look like
YOU choose
My biggest productivity breakthrough was a mindset shift, not a time management tip. Like most people working in a corporate role I had a job. I was lucky that mine never felt like being on a hamster wheel. It was intellectually challenging and interesting. And I was a model employee.
Complex Change
Leading change in organisations takes exceptional skill. There's complexity and a vested power base to consider. Stakeholders tend to consider their own agenda first. And change won't stick if the leaders can't align these. It takes creative collaboration to make that happen. Communicating WIIFM
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Last week I posted about reaching the 30 year milestone in independent practice. I mentioned I’m turning to “face the strange”. Why? Because things get too comfortable in the land of status quo. Sometimes we need to shake that up a bit. To shake it up and be ready
Autumn reading
Most book lists I see have 60+ titles. That seems like a lot of books to read in a year. It makes me question how many were read. And if they were digested deeply before recommendation. Maybe. Anyway, I’m sharing my Autumn reading list. Based on The Sunday Dispatches
Questioning in broken images
There’s a Robert Graves poem… that made me stop and think. Questioning in broken images. It has the quality of cold, clear air - bracing. He suggests something uncomfortable. Recalibrating something we take as true. Confidence = strength. Doubt = liability. We see this in some leaders. Maybe it’s what we
Turning to face the strange
In the lyrics for Changes (Hunky Dory 1972) David Bowie wrote "turn and face the strange". Sometimes things get too comfortable in status quo land.
