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6/6 Hindsight

6/6 Hindsight Yes, I know it should be 20/20 hindsight, but I am using the metric system. So, to be accurate it should be 6,096/6,096.  (Did you know that the number 20 refers to the number of feet from the eye chart?) Reflecting on my aspirations and goals for 2020 I have been both successful and […]

OPPORTUNITIES TAKEN AND OPPORTUNITIES MISSED

I recorded this live on Facebook while in the Philippines.

What is an opportunity?

It is something that comes along, it inspires us and makes our lives better, either in the moment or longer term.
It is experiencing something new, something different or something more

Why don’t we take up opportunities when they can be so enlightening and freeing and joy making?

THE GUT BRAIN AND HOW TO USE INTUITION – Part One

The Gut Brain and how to use Intuition (Part One) This is an extract from the Book – The Winning Way, Lessons from Super Performing South African Companies – by Jonathan Ball and Stephen Ashbury, published in 1989. Way back in the 1980’s, when I was in marketing, I knew about the gut and intuition. […]

LEADERSHIP INTELLIGENCE – Part Two

How to Develop Leadership Intelligence using Conversational Intelligence© Of the thirteen Intelligences identified in my model, there is one intelligence that embodies them all – Conversational Intelligence ®. A leader can activate all the other intelligences using the power of conversation! Neuroscience and linguistic studies reveal that the things we say, the words we use, […]

LEADERSHIP INTELLIGENCE – Part One

“Conversational Intelligence”, “Heart Intelligence”, “Cultural Intelligence” – some of the latest trends that have been created and utilised in leadership development. So much has been written about leadership (a Google search produced over 3 billion responses and Amazon has over 50000 books on the subject): its definition and meaning; the characteristics and traits of a […]