Don’t get boxed in …
“If you don’t let anybody build a box around you, then you will never have to think outside the box.” – Richard Branson
“If you don’t let anybody build a box around you, then you will never have to think outside the box.” – Richard Branson
“All wisdom traditions posit the profound truth that there are two fundamental ways to live life: from fear and scarcity or from trust and abundance.” Frederic Laloux May 2020 be be full of trust and abundance for you.
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” – Henry Ford
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The largest continuing hemorrhaging cost in every organisation is the time that people are wasting basically protecting and looking out for themselves.” – Robert Kegan
“Let him that would move the world, first move himself” – Socrates
The Group Styles Inventory (GSI) is the only research-based tool that provides a valid and reliable measure of how people in groups interact with each other and work as a team to solve problems. Extensively researched and internationally proven, this assessment provides group members with a ‘safe’ way to talk about their behaviour and how…
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
The Desert Situation “It is approximately 10 o’clock in the morning on a mid-August day and you have just crash-landed in the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States.” Your task is to rank 15 items salvaged from the plane in the order of their importance to your team’s survival. Set in an unfamiliar location,…
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” – Ayn Rand
Life Styles Inventory™ Research and development by Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. and J. Clayton Lafferty, Ph.D. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is an organisational tool that uses both self-assessment and colleague feedback to identify individual thinking and behavioural styles. By providing insights into strengths and areas for development, it empowers people to embark on their own journeys to…
“The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’.” – Taiichi Ohno
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
“Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.” – Fred Rogers
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks the right question.” – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Traditional personality profiles such as Myers- Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), FIRO B, DiSC® and Hogan instruments can be beneficial. They show you what your predisposition is to different behaviours. The downside to personality-based tools is that they are difficult to use as a benchmark. Personality, in general, stays the same unless we have a significant…
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” – Santosh Kalwar