Rare Leadership – Part 1 of 3
Rare Leadership. Last week I made a promise that I would be sharing a few more key insights from this remarkable book. My team knows that it’s been a refreshing leadership book that I can’t stop talking about. It’s helped find more language to a few key values that are very important in our organisation. […]
Get Muddy
Food, games, dirty feet and clean slates. This weekend we took our whole team on a retreat in the mountains. It was cold. We got muddy. We laughed. We cried. Things got real. We shared stories about the past 5 years and how it has led us to the place we have arrived today. And […]
City Hall Homework
We just walked out of the local city hall where we tried to get registered as residents at our new address. For the second time in two weeks. With more homework to be done – for the second time in two weeks. When you’re starting up a new project in a new cultural environment you […]
Review: Blinkist, Lucid, Mentorist, Headway, Shortform, StoryShots
The information age. The good, the bad and the ugly. While we can access every bit of data at the tip of our fingers, do we really experience anything more deeply than that, or just it all just stay at surface level? Here’s a thing that is a bit of a mystery to me. Podcasts […]
Who gets the credit?
Our living room is filled with moving boxes and there’s no book left on our bookshelf. Everything is in boxes, waiting to be moved to the new home. I finally packed my first box yesterday, and then spent more time telling everyone about my moment of pride than the time I spent packing it. Until […]
Mandela called her ‘Lizzie’
The news must have come your way in many shapes and forms and there is lots to read about the passing and the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A tragic moment for a nation and mostly her close relatives. A great article about her life as a Queen was done by The Economist […]
Three Lessons from The Desert Fathers
Not to be confused with Dessert Fathers. (English is my second language and it gets confusing at times.) The Desert Fathers are generally considered… wait, how do we translate this to 21st century language? Let’s just call them the influencers of Christian culture of the 3rd century. Except, instead of them trying to find the public […]
Who’s Raising Who?
Am I handing her the cup or is she handing it to me? Am I raising a daughter or is she raising me? There’s days for teenage daughters that I’m sure it feels more like the latter. “13 doesn’t really feel that old, but 14 does sound kinda old and 13 is only one year […]
Measure of Success
It’s not every day you get to talk to the parents of people you’re hiring or interviewing for job openings. We believe so strongly in the phrase ‘people over projects,’ that we always make it a priority to get on the phone with friends, previous leaders, colleagues or family members of our new team members. […]
Privilege to Dream
Who doesn’t love a good summer road trip? Besides hour-long playlists and quick little games you can play across however many rows of seats your car may have, what are some of your favourite ways to spend time on the road? For our family, we like to dream out loud as we see the other […]