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Leadership Lessons from Basecamp…

…which are actually general (life and work) lessons (of course) (Long post alert. TL;DR, life happens, it’s not a bad thing, it’s a life thing.) Leadership Case Study… Basecamp announced a suite of changes recently, self-described as ‘a full version change’, that caused quite some chatter on the social channels. It got me…

Leadership

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Leadership Lessons from Basecamp…
Leadership Lessons from Basecamp…
Leadership

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The Joy of Living. And How to Recapture it When You Lose It.

Looking for Joy… Sometimes my first client conversations go deep into the problem, the challenge or the desire my client is bringing to our work together. And sometimes they go high and wide, discussions about the meaning of life that don’t seem to connect to the immediate challenge, and yet explain everything. My…

Joy

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The Joy of Living. And How to Recapture it When You Lose It.
The Joy of Living. And How to Recapture it When You Lose It.
Joy

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Aug 1, 2021

When Does Change Happen

And why is it so hard to spot the join? Better Conversations I completed with a client this week and, inevitably I guess, we looked back a bit at what’s happened over the time we’ve been together. …

Leadership Development

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When Does Change Happen
When Does Change Happen
Leadership Development

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Jun 30, 2021

Resilience: What if I’m the Exception?

And what to do about it… What If… What is innately and universally true about resilience? And what if we strengthened that, worked with the natural systems — something akin to the idea in Taleb’s ‘antifragile’ as a friend pointed out when we had this discussion on LinkedIn. If it’s true that…

Resilience

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Resilience: What if I’m the Exception?
Resilience: What if I’m the Exception?
Resilience

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Jun 29, 2021

Who’s in the Room? Questioning Assumptions…

…and making the invisible visible. Ask, Don’t Assume… It’s never my role to ‘tell’ clients what to do, or even to offer advice, although sometimes suggestions can loosen the lid of ideation; but to open up their ideas of who they are and what they might not be seeing about themselves and about…

Leadership Development

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Who’s in the Room? Questioning Assumptions…
Who’s in the Room? Questioning Assumptions…
Leadership Development

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Jun 16, 2021

Applying ‘Deep Time’ in a Single Human Life (the ‘purpose’ question)

What will I do with this one wild and precious life? My Time? When I wrote about deep time, I had in mind planetary time, or longer, a sense of timelessness, where ‘time’ is a construct of human consciousness and there is something that exists outside of human understanding. The idea of…

Life Purpose

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Applying ‘Deep Time’ in a Single Human Life (the ‘purpose’ question)
Applying ‘Deep Time’ in a Single Human Life (the ‘purpose’ question)
Life Purpose

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Jun 13, 2021

Acting Out: Challenging the Collective Narrative

Or at least becoming more sensitive to seeing them! Seeing the Personal Narrative I spend some of my time with clients, usually at the beginning of our time together, helping them see the difference between what is out in the world, and the thought-created ‘illusion’ they experience as real. We’re aiming to develop the…

Leadership Development

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Acting Out: Challenging the Collective Narrative
Acting Out: Challenging the Collective Narrative
Leadership Development

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Jun 10, 2021

Perceptions and Reality: What Do We See When We Look at the World?

And what’s it actually made of? How’s It Going? I posted this cute picture (well cute to me) on social media this week, snapped on a bike trip, with a witty comment about sharing the lady’s pain over her lockdown locks. It got a few laughs, who doesn’t like a nice animal picture? …

Perception

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Perceptions and Reality: What Do We See When We Look at the World?
Perceptions and Reality: What Do We See When We Look at the World?
Perception

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May 30, 2021

Leadership Lessons from Counter-insurgency (I didn’t go looking but what I found was illuminating)

An unusual and unexpectedly fascinating place to find leadership lessons… Love and War? It may seem bizarre for someone who believes that the foundation of all leadership is unconditional love to be drawing lessons from military strategy, and counterinsurgency strategy at that-the darkest of the military arts. …

Leadership Development

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Leadership Lessons from Counter-insurgency (I didn’t go looking but what I found was illuminating)
Leadership Lessons from Counter-insurgency (I didn’t go looking but what I found was illuminating)
Leadership Development

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May 27, 2021

Deep Time: The Lost Art of Contemplating Time

How long is your timescale? And what difference does that make? How Long is Your Timeline? Let me ask you this, How long is your timeline? The one in your head when you think about all the things you make decisions about? Shopping, buying / renting a house, choosing a career, a partner, a holiday? …

Leadership Development

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Deep Time: The Lost Art of Contemplating Time
Deep Time: The Lost Art of Contemplating Time
Leadership Development

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Cathy Presland

Cathy Presland

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