Click on the lovely picture of the fire ants to watch a video of how they have adapted to deal with their home being flooded.
No, this isn’t simply an ant team building challenge in the Amazon!
These ants understand what team primacy is. Forming a raft from just their linked together bodies they float as a colony [...]
Reading this article from Harvard Business Review reminded us how important it is to ensure that you don’t assume everyone is on the same page. Would an army go into battle without every member of the force having been given a clear understanding of the purpose and approach for the mission? In most cases, [...]
I was out running today - well I say running, it’s more a form of shuffling along where at certain points both feet are off the ground so it qualifies as running from a technical perspective…anyway, it was feeling tough and then i met someone I know who was cycling along the same road and [...]
… is apparently a very good place to work indeed (if you use some criteria we like!). In their recent advert about ideas, or keeping it weird, the Microsoft advert states how they work on keeping it human and keeping it real, in the workplace. The advert goes on to say how, “you have to [...]
I’ve re-learned something really important this week - that giving and receiving quality performance focused feedback and then taking responsibility for doing something about it is vital for my performance. And to enable that to happen a few things are required: I have to be open to feedback - to want to know anything that [...]
I love the piece on Mental Toughness but mostly the thought about choosing to see your confidence as valuing the difference you can make to people. I have never chosen to think about my confidence in this way, I think I’ve always chosen to shy away from the view of being seen as confident and [...]
You might be interested to read Lawrence Dallaglio’s recent words in a great article in the Times.
This paragraph jumped out for me as being majorly relevant to the current challenges…
“We had great players in specialist areas and leadership was clearly an integral part of our success in 2003. We had Johnson, Vickery, Hill, Back, Greenwood [...]
In some research we were involved in a few years ago, we found a couple of interesting things out about people who were voted as very mentally tough by folks who understood their world.First thing was that mentally tough people had confidence that didn’t break down easily - it wasn’t necessarily very, very high confidence, [...]
…while all others around you are doing a good impression of something without a head, requires a lot of mental toughness. Like anything that’s difficult, the more you prepare for the challenge, the more of a fighting chance of success you have when the key moments actually arrive. So, given that the playing field has [...]