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Does Anyone Really Change?

“What gets measured, gets done.” The question in the subject line was the focus of a group of top leadership trainers in North America. They had being running workshops for years without checking on results. So they went back to all of their participants (over 86,000) to find out if people had ‘stuck with the […]

Robbery, Response and Bruce Lee

I think it was John Lennon who said ‘Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.” I awoke a few days ago to discover our home had been broken into, every piece of technology stolen and my car gone! This only shortly after the high of exceeding the target for my play’s crowd-funding target. […]

Wow! – Andy Murray – more about things away from the court.

What a weekend of sport! The irony is that with such a beautiful weekend in Ireland you could have spent most of it indoors watching the tv…:) Here’s some of the highlights: -Andy Murray became the first British tennis player to win Wimbledon in 77 years. -Dublin won their first hurling Leinster final in 52 […]

Mandela’s Trait To Copy

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Nelson Mandela Sad to hear that Nelson Mandela is very ill at the moment. A great hero of mine, he’s a great example of what it means to be a genuine human being. Single […]

Man of Steel, With a Few Quavers…

“What’s the point of getting up in the morning unless you’re gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure” – Hans Zimmer, Composer You may not know the name Hans Zimmer, but you probably know the movies he […]

How much value are you adding?

 “Do your job and demand your compensation… but in that order.” ~ Cary Grant (British-American film and stage actor) Some people won’t like me writing this. Having spent over 14 years working directly with business owners, entrepreneurs and senior executives one observation has been that most people demand more compensation than the value they’re giving. […]

Are you enjoying life?

“It’s tough to fully live when you’re not enjoying life.” – Shane Cradock I don’t often put my name against a quote but this is one of those life lessons that has smacked me in the face. What I’ve discovered is that enjoyment is really more to do with attitude than your circumstances. I’ve worked […]

A Lesson From Gone With The Wind

“One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.” – Sydney Howard Syndey Howard was an Amercian playwright and screenwriter. He won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1925 and a posthumous Oscar for the screenplay for the movie Gone With The Wind. His quote above I […]

Chaos & Tranquility – A weekend of opposites…

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra My weekend was an exercise in complete opposites… Saturday was spent with a dozen ‘high-energy’ kids (4 to 6 year olds) as we celebrated the birthdays of our kids Jane (6) and Sam (4). Monsters, jumping, chasing… and that was just […]