Seems a little strange to us that confidence is so important, yet treated so strangely.
Just think, if you’re not feeling that confident, it’s not really the done thing to go around letting people know that you’re not feeling very confident (wow, they’re on the way out) and could do with their support.
However, if you’re feeling [...]
…or at least someone else who thinks like us (by the way you can become our friend of ours on facebook, we’d like that).
The extract below is from Seb Coe’s 2009 book The Winning Mind: My Inside Track on Great Leadership. I liked it so much I typed it up (and I’m a slow typist) to send to [...]
In this 3 minute video on the BBC Sport website, Mike Singletary, coach of US football’s San Francisco 49ers and GB’s Olympic gold medal winning rower Mark Hunter compare notes and similarities on what it takes to achieve greatness in whatever you do.
We love the refernces to beliefs, teams being on the same page and [...]
“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 your customer that you wouldn’t say [...]
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? Funny how the article is [...]
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 to clearly understand why Mr Brown was [...]