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    • Publications and appearances
  • About the book
    • The book
    • Launch Party Photo Gallery
  • Recent Posts
    • An island in an ocean full of change
    • Herrings and peanuts
    • Beautiful and Terrible Things
    • Taking my own medicine
    • How’s business?
    • I do, we do, you do, review …
    • Two Monsters
    • The Tough Question
    • How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty
    • A celebration, a pause, and a lesson
  • Resources
    • Rethinking Change – Extra Resources
    • Psalm

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  • Business writing,  Humanising business,  Leadership,  Organisational change,  Personal Reflections,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    Two Monsters

    20 July 2019 /

    When my eldest son was three years old, my brother bought him a book that had been one of his own favourites when he was younger. It’s a book called Two Monsters, by David McKee and it’s about, well, two monsters.  The two monsters live on opposite sides of a mountain – one on the east side, and one on the west side. They have never met, but they can speak to each other through a hole in the mountain.  One evening, the sky is beautiful, and one monster shouts to the other through the hole,  ‘Look! Isn’t it beautiful! Day is departing.’ ‘Day departing?’ replies the other monster? ‘You…

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    27 August 2019
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    12 March 2021
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  • Leadership,  Organisational change,  Purpose

    How to Keep Your People Engaged in Times of Uncertainty

    07 May 2019 /

    We had one of those rare family evenings around the dinner table just recently when the bickering stopped and we had a ‘proper’ conversation. My ten year old daughter asked, apparently apropos of nothing, ‘What’s your favourite feeling?’ We covered joy, laughter, cosiness, relief, gratitude … and then my thirteen year old son alighted on ‘Looking forward to something’.  That fluttering sensation in your stomach, the way the air feels like it’s buzzing, the sky a little brighter … the way you can be assailed with this feeling even if you momentarily can’t remember what it is you may be looking forward to … and how it’s such a close…

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    Rethinking Simplicity

    25 March 2021
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    Rethinking Belonging

    04 March 2021

    An island in an ocean full of change

    01 March 2021
  • Organisational change,  Purpose

    Purpose over Process: How Your Gantt Chart Causes Damage During Periods of Change

    13 March 2019 /

    Change is coming, everyone in your organisation can feel it and there’s a general undercurrent of unease. We are not creatures who like uncertainty. We’re programmed such that our brains feel better when we can see patterns and predict the future. We like to sense-make.

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    Rethinking Simplicity

    25 March 2021

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    06 March 2022

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    27 August 2019
  • Organisational change,  Purpose,  Storytelling

    And they all lived happily ever after: Why change leaders need to ditch process in favour of telling a good story

    13 March 2019 /

    So, your organisation is facing change. You’re in charge. What is the first thing you’re going to turn to, to help everyone make it through?

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    12 October 2022
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    Rethinking Energy

    26 April 2021
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    Rethinking Confidence

    12 March 2021
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