mentalhealth

I was walking along the beach with my wife (that’s her in the photo above) when I saw a man skipping stones on the top of the water. He was the best I have ever seen. The stone flew out of his hand and powered across the water and bounced well over 10 times. It …

How do you replicate the results of your top salesperson or top engineer? Read More »

Do you think you can get this one right? In 1951, Groups of eight college students were given a paper asking which two lines were the same. They each called out which were the two lines. Except 7 had been told to intentionally give the wrong answer. The remaining student agreed with the 7, giving …

Avoiding group think Read More »

How often have you given someone the job only for them to not match up to what was promised in their interview? But they seemed so confident! We are naturally drawn to confident people, but sadly confidence and competence are not always correlated. This is why interviews are not actually the best way of selecting …

Confidence vs competence: what to look for in an interview Read More »

Sometimes you get reminded of how easy it is to accomplish difficult things if people are actually working together as a team, to support each other and to achieve the same aim . At the start of last week we were finalising delivery of a very complex bit of work that we have been working on …

Who is on your team to enable success? Read More »

When was the last time you took a few minutes to really look at how you are doing? All of us are going to go through rough patches in life. In one such patch in my life a therapist friend asked me if I was getting better over time, staying the same, or getting worse. …

How are you really doing? Read More »