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Energy and Growth
As part of the celebration, each person took a piece of paper and wrote their desires for growth in the coming year on it, or drew a picture, or both, and planted the paper under a seedling in our veg...
Alice's Story
<span class="pullquote pqRight">I was recently contacted by Alice, who was feeling the pinch quite acutely. Here's the start of her email:</span>
Avoiding Growing Pains: 3 Steps to Ensuring Organisational Change Isn't Painful
I recently had the opportunity to observe the results of a growth spurt in an organisation that grew from 10 to 400 employees in 6 years. The company was looking for a new CEO, CIO and IT Manager, who...
The Counterproductive Counter Offer
Mary has held a senior position in her team for a few years now, but feels she's become stagnant in her current position. Her employer has held out on pay rises and doesn't know how to help her grow w...
Making the Switch from Google
My problem now is they know too much. Yes, they already know a lot, but so far they only know what I make public. Now they want to know my secrets. They've indexed every web page my name appears on al...
Google Double Plus Bad?
I looked at the "Share what's new" box thinking, what do I write as my first post on Google+? And I froze. I couldn't add anything. I couldn't contribute to this ever growing database of information a...
It Burns!
I've always loved fire, whether it's starting one, taking photos of twirlers or fireworks or just sitting in front of one with a glass of red or a hot chocolate.
Take a Breather
So today we made it all about us. We went for a drive, made an impromptu stop at a market we passed (and I devoured a totally delicious, fresh, hot jam doughnut!), went for fish and chips and beer (ju...
Human Brand Management
33 sleeps later, and I've still not looked at it once.
Reminiscing
I've just popped my head in on a few of them, and have been reminiscing a little. Some of them bring back memories I'm not quite ready to relive, it seems. But they're all me, all mine and all my trut...
Recouperating
As I lay there 15 minutes later, wanting so desperately to fall asleep in the warm room, Jacqui walked in, turned on the lights and we all came to the middle of our mats. She's just what I needed - he...
