Great Circle

Let’s face it Boss/Manager/Leader, your time is valuable … and so is that of your staff.
Before you go dragging busy people into another team meeting, ask yourself these questions:

Is there actually a more effective delivery system for the information I want to pass on?
Is there too much talk and not enough action in my department or office? How’s [...]

I like totally dug this post I read this morning. (Sorry I’m blogging in a West Coast surfer accent this morning – too much Michaelangelo on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & not enough sleep).
I’m like not into the transcendental mediation thing but I am into peace and getting centred. That’s what this is about & [...]

Sick of meetings? Finding you’re jumping through hoops instead of getting your work done?
You’re not alone and business commentators have been singing the praises of decentralising and debureaucratising workplaces for a couple of decades now. I love this recent post by Kevan Hall - and the picture at Slow Leadership expresses what most of us are thinking [...]

 
Ahhh, the pressure even the youngest of us are under to get things done, to deliver the stuff (whatever the stuff is) …
Them ancient civilisations (or Civs as gamers call ‘em) knew a thing or two about livin’ right. The ancient Hebrews for instance had a tradition called Shabbat. You might have heard it called “Sabbath” [...]

“What happened to this month? I’ve been busy but I don’t seem to have accomplished anything!”
Ever felt like that? It can be the same feeling about a year, a week, a day or even a morning. Sometimes when you look back at that period of time, does it feel like someone stole the time away? [...]

Eight months of my life were spent living with the extreme restrictions of an acute and chronic back problem. There wasn’t much I could do: couldn’t sit in a coffee shop, couldn’t sit at my own table for more than 2 minutes, couldn’t play active games with the kids, couldn’t stand for too long in [...]