strengths & weaknesses

Is it useful to be scary?

I have a couple of clients who have both admitted recently that they have a reputation for being…


To what extent are you ‘Unbridled while Corralled’?

  A leader of an organisation once said ‘I want our people to be “unbridled yet corralled”‘. That…


Beware where you let off steam!

Years ago, every morning around 8am, I and the other managers at a sausage factory in Manchester would…


Is there an antidote to exhaustion?

Do you sometimes notice colleagues and friends who appear to have lost their zest for work and life?…


More about Jim

After my post at the end of last month several people left me messages about Jim. They recognized…


Tell (yourself) fewer stories: here’s why.

My post a few weeks ago encouraged us to tell more stories. This time round I want to…


Do you feel safe enough to be wild?

This week the post is from Steve Holliday, a regular contributor to our FED Central site. In this…


Does it matter how you get results?

I was working with a manager recently who told me that her boss was brutal. The style of…


How does your daily behaviour encourage creativity and engage people?

A friend of mine who used to work for an advertising agency was telling me the other day…


Who are you choosing to be?

A key insight for me from Future Engage Deliver has been that of choice, in particular choosing between…


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