“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

So, to save you from reading the Dan Pink article, the challenge he finishes off with is a useful one. "So try an experiment. For the next seven days, go monolingual and speak only human at work. Don’t say anything to your boss, your staff, your teammate, your supplier or…

Well... speaking human actually. A great article from Dan Pink in the Telegraph, where he speaks about something pretty important to us at K2... being human (it's one of our core values and one that you'd think was pretty easy to deliver on...). How good are you at speaking human?…

Have a read of this BBC piece relating to Tony Blair's views of Gordon Brown. A particularly useful extract is: Blair says Mr Brown lacked political instinct "at the human gut level" adding: "Political calculation, yes. Political feelings, no. Analytical intelligence, absolutely. Emotional intelligence, zero." Some interesting observations and helps…

At a recent all day meeting we had a play around with a new way of managing the agenda. Instead of running through in a predefined order, we simply created a meeting lucky dip. All of the sections of the agenda went into a hat, we then picked out one…

Although we use Basecamp already here at K2 and love how the people at 37Signals work, we had't really realised what high performance role models they were until we read, Rework, the superbly irreverent but always relevant business book, by the founders of 37Signals. It's packed full of excellent examples…

Thanks to the BBC for this extract from an interview with Roger Federer which shows how great he is at considering the different elements of the performance pie - there's great stuff in here about the physical and mental elements of the performance pie, as well as the emotional component…

Have a listen to San Francisco 49ers coach, Mike Singletary talking on the BBC Sport Website. There's some very simple, high performance thinking in here that can relate to anyone who has to deliver at a consistently high level. Ask yourself some questions to see if you fit with Mr…

Have a listen to a number of the athletes talking about having 2 years to go until the London Olympics. There's some interesting thoughts about the importance of having a long term aim, but being focused on today. There's also a lot of focus in the videos about having an…

Click on the words Bradley Wiggins to hear an interview with him back in March talking about the Tour de France. The tour started this week and you can hear Wiggins in the interview talking about many of the performance factors that will help him perform. In particulat the physical,…