Occasionally I dip into Seth Godin’s daily posts and select one to share. Last week he wrote the one below, where he notes:
“It turns out that the people with the potential to benefit the most from a coach are often the most hesitant precisely because of what coaching involves. Talking about our challenges. Setting goals. Acknowledging that we can get better.”
One constant I see in so many areas of life is that people are either ready, or not ready. My choice is to only work with people who are ready, ready to grow, improve, get better, all so…
#OpenLeadership is the secret to linking the new way of thinking about vision, strategy and leadership to deliver on strategy over time.
What are the perceived benefits of the NHS?
UK residents benefit from access to the NHS (National Health Service), through which all received universal health care “for free”. In short, people don’t pay for medical care (although clearly it is funded by taxation). However, perhaps the “perceived benefit” of that is both unclear to most people in the UK, as well as of varying perceived value (depending on, for example, how often we need to take advantage of this).
This lack of clear and aligned perceived benefits amongst the actual beneficiaries of the system can and do cause problems at…
February 27th 2020. My third visit in three months to Cayman, but that was the last day I was in Cayman. As I flew back to London I could already sense that the pandemic would be upon us and that would be my last time visiting home, but I had no idea it would be so long.
August 25th 2021. 22 days from now I will finally be able to come home to Cayman!
I so look forward to catching up with as many people as I can once I am released from quarantine. I expect to be out and…
Last Saturday I had a “cloudy day”. I learned this term later on in the weekend by reading a series of tweets from Carl Richards that I’m sharing today as I feel they are perfect in expressing how I too felt.
From the start of the day on Saturday, I felt really down. …
What time do you see on that clock? Take your time, then say it out loud.
What time did you say?
If you are from the USA, Cayman (and the English-speaking Caribbean), more often than not you will have said “3 pm”.
However, anyone from non-US-centric countries, will be shaking their heads and saying, “no, it is clearly 3 am, how could they say 3 pm?”
Well, it is a blind spot, as while the vast majority of countries in the world use the 24-hour clock, the USA simply doesn’t, it always uses the 12-hour clock.
To me, Katie Ledecky is simply the #GOAT, the greatest swimmer of all time.
I’ve written on this blog several times in the past about Katie to seek to understand a little about her and what lessons we can take:
- Nov 2017: Elite lessons: Katie Ledecky (aka The GOAT)
- Jan 2018: Emotional Equations — Grit
- Feb 2021: How to become better than anyone is at anything
This week, though, I learned yet more about what makes her great, as she competed at the Tokyo Olympics.
Katie Ledecky truly has a phenomenal range. She is by far the greatest long-distance pool…
One of the positives for me of the way we are now meeting and connecting is that a vibrant group has come together under the banner of “Caymanians Overseas”, which (for Caymanians Overseas OR in Cayman, meets weekly on zoom and is a great mix of socialising, networking and learning for those of us who are Caymanian or have ties to Cayman). For more on our weekly “Virtual Yard” meetings, click here.
Now, one of our group, also based, like me, in the London area, is Claire Foy. Claire is currently on a journey into coaching and is documenting this…
This week’s WhatComesNextLive conversation was with Alasdair McGill. As he spoke about building his business, he talked about how, at a certain growth stage, they made a conscious choice to pause their growth.
During this pause period, they took time to relax, refresh, then to reflect on where they were and what to focus on next in order to be ready to grow the business once again.
As I note this, I also reflect that the power of pausing is a repeated theme in my daily posts. …
Arches are beautiful and date back millennia in architecture. However, structurally they depend on a Keystone in the centre at the top for them to fulfil their function in creating a door or entryway. We need to build a foundation in any structure, then to lift up the structure and create an opening to the interior, we need a Keystone.
To me, Culture is a Keystone for your business, yet this week I learned that fewer leaders than I thought had recognised this before the pandemic changed so much with people working away from central offices. Where did I learn…
Tom McCallum
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