Communicating constructively needs to be undertaken in an anti-clockwise manner

If we ignore what is truly important to us, we ignore our greatest source of power. When we fill our lives with activities and attitudes that are congruent with our values, we gain considerable satisfaction and can achieve great things.

What if you could have a personal breakthrough? What would you achieve?

At the top of the HSI circumplex is Satisfaction (blue) . At the bottom is Security (red and green). Jodie Nevid of BRS makes the link between vulnerability and the courage to leave security behind. Arguably this idea is the key to really effective leadership.

“As long as we think that we already know we don’t bother to rethink the situation.” – Eli Goldratt

“I once knew a little boy in England who asked his father, “Do fathers always know more than sons?” and the father said, “Yes.” The next question was , “Daddy, who invented the steam engine?” and the father said, “James Watt.” And then the son came back with “—but why didn’t James Watt’s father invent…

This blog sits very well with my recent post re “How NOT to create an environment for teaming and innovation”. In particular the last 4 minutes of the John Cleese video on creativity.