In a Harvard Business Review blog article is the following paragraph: "Dan tells a story about Clare Booth Luce, the playwright, journalist, and Republican Member of Congress. In 1962, Luce met with President Kennedy, who was, at the time, pursuing an ambitious agenda domestically and overseas. She worried about his diffuse…

Evidently we're worthy of a very grand title in the FT - Business Wisdom! We see it more as stating the obvious... but nice that the folks at the FT think it's wisdom!

Making this week great... On a monday morning, it's a good idea to think about how you're going to benefit from your strengths, rather than just be in possession of them for another week (without them adding anything specific to you). Just as an elite athlete would look ahead to…

So, we talk a lot about strengths on here and playing to your strengths, as well as developing them. One of the benefits of this kind of approach is that it's a completely no risk approach to personal development work. If you identify your strengths and choose to work on…

It seems the interpretation of the change in Mr Crosby in the final of the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament may have been correct (see a couple of posts down from here). Speaking after the match, this is what the match winner had to say about his goal: “I didn’t see…

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How easily can you list your strengths? If you can list them easily, chances are you play to them consistently. If you haven't given your strengths any thought, chances are you'll think about not failing, or not having your weaknesses exposed when the pressure is on. If you want to…

Roger Federer... personifies elite performance... intense, sustained, consistent excellence... 23 straight grand slam semi-finals, which is incredible. If you think that he would have played 5 rounds per tournament to get to the semi's, with probably an average of about 2 hours per match (give or take), then thats 23…

Someone on the radio the other day mentioned this great concept (the Talent Myth... which was touted a few years ago) that actually works in two kinds of negative ways! The speaker made a comment that many people in the banking world are living a talent myth, constantly reinforcing that they have…