Send in the gowns
Last Friday was MBA graduation day at Henley; the best day of the whole programme for every particpant. These days it’s also become one of the best days of my Henley year, too, as I now recognise so...
View ArticleShedding a crocodile tier for British Airways
View from the lounge at HeathrowAir travel is a drudge. A first-world problem and a privileged drudge, to be sure, but ignore the context of being lucky enough to travel within the same day to many...
View ArticleMinistering a #mindfulnation: Parliamentarians with their feet on the floor
Autumn in mind at Henley Yesterday I was pleased to take up an invitation, facilitated by Will Moore (one of our Exec MBAs) to attend the official launch of a report by The Mindfulness Initiative...
View ArticleAsk not what mindfulness can do for you, ask what you can do for mindfulness.
This week I was able to follow up being present at (if not part of) the recent #mindfulnation report launch at Parliament by attending a meeting to promote the work of one of the four areas of...
View ArticleLinkedIn fails to spot that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it….
With more than 400 million registered members worldwide (over 19 million of whom are based in the UK), LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional networking web-site. Quite a success story for a...
View ArticleNotes from the road
The photo is Henley in winter, but I’m now down here in Johannesburg for a couple of PD workshops. It’s a pleasure to visit somewhere in the middle of its summer when you’ve escaped somewhere else in...
View ArticleThe road to Singapore (and the bridge to Johor Bahru)
Along with some colleagues from Henley Business School in the UK, I’ve been in Malaysia – just across the water from the island of Singapore – for five days now. The picture above shows us greeting...
View ArticleEntering Linkedin’s Twilight Zone
Subject: Group Announcement – A total mystery [160317-005516] This was the subject line on my message (see “Message #1, below) sent to the Linkedin Group help center this week. What was my total...
View ArticleWhat’s a paradox? It’s contrary to what you think…
As part of a current project to revisit the Personal Development aspect of the Henley DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) programme, I’ve been forced to start to think about the concept of paradox....
View ArticleThe big question. Which way to
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been two months since my last posting on this blog. My shame is palpable. I’ve been loyal to my blog for about 10 years. Why the lapse? Well, I confess, I...
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