The Questions We Ask
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A casual conversation in an airport washroom results in musings over the questions we ask!
Category: The OWL Despatch
A curated fortnightly edition of the best thoughts on work , learning and the changing nature of work
In Praise Of The Entrepreneur
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‘I lack the charisma’, I remember one successful entrepreneur telling me. Over time though, he discovered how limiting that thought can be and how much of a myth that was!
A Recipe For Success
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A recipe for success from observation and conversation with business leaders.
The Four Types Of Learners. Which One Describes You Best?
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The Four Types Of Learners are a playful set of labels for you to think and learn.
Notes From The Hills
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Auto-renewal is available on insurance policies. Deliberate renewal is critical to living. May I invite you to consider?
Profiles In Everyday Courage. How Courageous Are You?
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The courage that meets us in everyday moments, wrapped in the mundane and set amongst ordinary people.
Advice After A Promotion – Five points to remember
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Recollecting advice that was received that helped heaps. Advice that gave a very good perspective to the work ahead.
“How can I have a thriving career?”
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A young man who has just passed out of campus asked me a simple question: “How can I have a thriving career given that there is so much change happening?”. The first thing he ought to do, I suggested, was to stop seeking straightforward answers as soon as the question popped up. One part of Read more
Raising the bar
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The expression “raising the bar” comes from sport. To raise the bar indicates the setting of a new standard. What it often results in, is a new a new set of expectations. Every-time I hear that expression, I am reminded of Sergei Bubka, the pole vaulter who broke the world record 35 times! The story Read more
Gradually and then suddenly.
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Last week, I bumped into someone who I hadn’t met in a long while. It was he who walked up to me and said hello. Truth be told, I had struggled to place him. He was a pale version of the easy, sharp, witty, handsome and fit chap everyone else wanted to be. “One success Read more