Why coaching works
Coaching reaches parts of the brain other approaches don't During these past three months, I’ve resumed my Masters studies in coaching – which partly accounts for the lack of posts here. Aside from...
View ArticleStress at work
All too much? The charity, Mind, is running a campaign on mental health at work. It’s offering resources to help employees manage stress at work. Mind emphasises the need to recognise when you are...
View ArticleBook review: Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
When humans evolved into seals Kurt Vonnegut’s 1985 novel Galápagos is a Darwinian satire on the mess humankind causes for itself as a result of having evolved big brains. Set in the late 20th Century,...
View ArticleThe subtle balance between intuition and rationality
Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow, by the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, is a dense read which took me several weeks. But it was highly rewarding –...
View ArticleEngage a coach to save humanity from itself
Humans are a clever species. Look at the world we’ve constructed. The very name homo sapiens describes us as wise. But somehow we’ve come to live in a way that is inimical to our nature and...
View ArticleOn bringing your whole self to work
Pilita Clark seems to have taken up a role in the FT, previously occupied by Lucy Kellaway, debunking fashionable corporate nonsense. Her latest piece takes issue with the trend to encourage employees...
View ArticleLeading from the right: understanding the divided brain
It’ll be ten years in October since Iain McGilchrist published The Master and His Emissary, his magisterial study of the division of the brain into left and right hemispheres and the impact of this...
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