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Tuesday 8th September 2009
I recently rediscovered the YouTube video of Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address. He talks about his own university experiences, and in particular, his decision to drop out. This was a big thing for him (he describes it a 'pretty scary'), because his biological parents had stipulated that whoever adopted him had to agree to send him to university.
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Wednesday 2nd September 2009
I've written before about working with your strengths, but how do you FIND them in the first place?
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Tuesday 11th August 2009
At heart, we are all storytellers, we live our lives through stories. A good story has the power to engage our emotions, to inspire us while we absorb the lessons or concepts behind it. In changing times, crafting and telling your corporate story is vital, inside the company as well as with clients and other stakeholders.
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Monday 27th July 2009
I recently had an amazing lunch at Melbourne's MoVida tapas bar, and the experience reminded me of some great business advice - find what you do really well and focus on improving it, becoming expert at it and making your business or career revolve around it. Play with it, add to it, improvise and have fun, but stick to a core theme that works for you, that expresses what you are really good at, the 'essence' of you.
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Tuesday 7th July 2009
I am giving some workshops in Victoria over the next week, for the Australian and New Zealand Buddhist Youth Conference. The main topic is 'Building a Strengths Profile', which is one of my favourite themes.
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Tuesday 9th June 2009
I went for a long walk with my dog today, listening to an old favourite on my iPod, David Whyte's quite marvellous Clear Mind Wild Heart. I reached the place where he talks of those times in our lives where we have to become bigger, where we must find a way to inhabit a greater sense of possibility than before.
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