Some people feel the rain

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet”

Robert Nesta Marley

So tonight I was walking through London from one meeting to another, and as I saw these arches, this particular quote from the inestimable and incomparable Bob Marley came to mind.

A cold and crisp early evening as London remembered belatedly that mid-December is meant to feel like winter.

I’d headed out earlier to meet two amazing humans to give them copies of Alan Moore’s unspoken manifesto, his call to action to the question “how can you, your business, be more beautiful?”, his book: “Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything”.

As Alan and I continue to hold the design and structure of the evolving community around Beautiful Leaders and Makers, we are sharing Alan’s visionary ideas with more and more people. For me, rather than use my words to explain, I carry around copies of Do/Design. It is beautifully concise and, again and again, those who read it totally “get it” when they then consider “how can my business be more beautiful?”.

So, my first meeting was in Carnaby Street over Dishoom’s addictive chai with the inspiring Gib Bulloch (author of “The Intrapreneur: Confessions of a corporate insurgent”). I first met Gib thanks to the wonderful annual summit put on in April each year by Entrepreneurial…