» Values & Philosophy

My daughter is a movie buff and decided that we needed to have a late Xmas treat and insisted that we sat down to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the James Stewart movie.  If you haven’t seen it, briefly it is about a good man who basically spends his life sacrificing his opportunities to be […][...] read more » What a Wonderful Life!

I was listening to Michael Caine talk on Desert Island Island Disks this morning.  I am a big fan of his acting, especially in his latter years.  Although he is 19 years older than me, I was a teenager when I saw him burst onto the movie scene as Alfie.   So my years of my […][...] read more » A successful man?

Someone responded to my blog yesterday “I usually let it go with the flow……or better……where the flow takes us……….”    And it made me realise that what sounds rather like a bit of a hippy cliché in fact contains some really serious keys to successful change.  Change is organic; it comes from within.  Attempts to impose […][...] read more » Going with the Flow

If people ask me “What do you do?”  I’ll often say “I’m a Change consultant” To which they normally go “Oh.. Change management” If time is short I agree, but given half a chance I explain why I don’t like this phrase and why I feel that real change is not something to ‘manage’ rather […][...] read more » Video Blog: Why Change can’t be ‘managed’

When your life is about making the next promotion, selling the next big contract, buying a nicer home or whatever, then it is relatively easy to measure your progress.  Life is like a race and you can see those you are competing against falling behind you in your rear-view mirror.  Your progress up the corporate […][...] read more » Measuring progress beyond goals

In an earlier blog one of my correspondents was talking about how changes in society are affecting the environment in which our children are growing up.  Whether you are running a business or just reading self-help books we are all exhorted to set and pursue goals.  Some people would have us believe that all we […][...] read more » Goals v Acceptance

A friend left this comment on my blog, which contained this sentence “I started thinking about the millions of stones/pebbles, how each was different, very different & yet if you lift your eyes the beach looks golden & could be a continuous strip of bronzed sand”.   And that got me thinking, I bet each of […][...] read more » Are you a pebble?

I was talking to my lady wife today, discussing the change in the rate of change in our lives.  When we were younger life seemed to be composed of passing a series of landmarks such as marriage, the births of our children, job & house changes etc.  Then it feels like you get to a […][...] read more » The view from a tunnel

I am engaged in an interesting project that aims to help people and also to help people to help others.  After a couple of sessions we focused in on this idea of making a difference by sharing.  In this web era, everyone has the power to publish their ideas, their experiences and their creative outpourings.   […][...] read more » Making a difference

We are told from an early age that a leopard can’t change its spots as a self evident article of truth.  As a professional in this field I obviously don’t see it quite this way.  Obviously we are born with a certain nature, a body and a genome that gives us a predisposition towards certain […][...] read more » Can a leopard change its spots?