We know from the greatest people we've worked with that they're superb at consistently carrying around with them the ideas that...Their natural talent is not enough for them to excel...They have to constantly keep working on where to focus their desire to improve... andThey have to embrace change and drive…

We'd highly recommend visiting www.badscience.net to help you debunk the bad science and much of the nonsense that gets published about what might or might not be good for you. It's clear from a lot of the trash newspaper articles that Ben Goldacre takes to task, that the common theme…

In this video we see Prof Richard Wiseman (of "The Luck Factor" and "Quirkology") demonstrating that firewalking is a load of old tosh. Most enjoyable, as although we believe in the power of the mind sometimes it can be taken a bit too far! Fine line - genius and insanity!…

Two words I thought I'd never write next to each other... an oxymoron if ever there was one!   However, take a look at this from Robbie Keane, the Liverpool benchwarmer.   "I'm not being big-headed but I've scored a lot of goals in the last 10 years and it's…

Someone mentioned today that there is opportunity in chaos... Seems like a sensible assertion. And there is opportunity for sure, providing your know what abilities you have to exploit that opportunity. It's been said that "chance favours the prepared mind" and these two ideas sit nicely together. Opportunity and the…

I was talking with a team we work with the other day and remarked how they were in a perfect storm. End of year mayhem to bring home the promised numbers, a change of leader, planning for 2009 to be completed and a really uncertain external climate. The perfect situation…

So I'm sitting on the stationary bike doing a warm down session after a half marathon on Sunday. It's a bike in a hotel gym though exactly the same make and model as the bike I use at my local gym. It's only a warm down session so I'm not…

Whilst having a rare flick through the FT the other day, we happened across a book review for "Managing to Learn Using The A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead" by John Shook. Not the most enticing of titles! However, the FT article was entitled "The…

When we're in circumstances that look and feel totally foreign, we can often conclude that we don't have appropriate skills to deal with what we're facing. That conclusion comes from seeing the situation as unique, unexpected, threatening and thereby difficult to achieve. In these instances we need to shift gear…

The concept of "next step thinking" came up last week in a conversation. This is all about focusing on being in the moment and being confident that you can do the next thing you need to do with complete focus and confidence. It seems that this is very important at…