Earlier this week I ran Day 4 of a training program at a high profile institution in Brussels. During the session on Leadership one group asserted that leaders need to be able to manipulate as a key skill! Now, I thought that this was a key skill for…
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You can choose
Posted in Coaching, Communication, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged choice, culture, leaders, leadership, learning, manipulation, nlp, stuck on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Incognito or unconscious?
Posted in Wide Circle, tagged blink, Bryce Redford, business schools, confidence, conscious mind, Dr David Hamilton, economic recovery, economist, Emotional Intelligence, Employee engagement, hypnotherapy, Internal Communications, intuition, left brain, malcolm gladwell, market sentiment, Milton Erickson, mind body connection, nlp, rapport, right brain, sub conscious, Thinking, unconscious mind on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s strange the way a mainly left brain activity like science, takes time to catch up with its counterpart, the right brain. Even more intriguing is when the left brain discovers
Blue Trees & Purple Cows
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged articles, Communication, consciousness, differently, emails, health, images, internal, meaning, negative, positive, safety, Thinking on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I want you to do something for me now: “Don’t think of a blue tree!” What are you thinking about? A blue tree, of course. How about: “Don’t think of a purple cow!” The reason you first see the blue tree or purple cow is because you cannot process a negative in your consciousness. You [...]
Is it good or bad?
Posted in Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged adventurous, behaviour, excellence, excited, feelings, focus, growth, mind body connection, nlp, organizations, passionate, people, perception, positve, reality, recession, retail, Shakespeare, Theo Paphitis, Thinking, Wide Circle on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“…there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 239–251 Think about that for a minute…. Science has proven William Shakespeare to be right. If we run our minds on negative thoughts it’s like putting bad fuel into a car – it will not function properly. [...]
Getting the psychology right…
Posted in Communication, Economy, nlp, Wide Circle, tagged Archie Norman, ASDA, buy-in, Einstein, FT.com, Good to Great, hope, Jim Collins, Psychology, reality, recession, Stockdale, strategy, value on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Einstein said: “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” This got me thinking about which reality strategy you’re encouraging your people to run during these tough economic times. Here are some insights that you may find useful for navigating these choppy seas: In his book “Good to Great“, researcher, academic and author [...]
Is Pharma immune?
Posted in Economy, Wide Circle, tagged acquire, Bristol Myers Squibb, deal, Genentech, Merck, merger, Pfizer, pharmaceutical, reality, Roche, Schering-Plough, takeover, Thinking, Wyeth on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The pharmaceutical industry’s perception of reality – a topic I will come back to frequently this week – appears to be quite different from the rest of the industrial world. Pfizer took over Wyeth in January 2009 for $68Bn. Yesterday, Merck announced a ‘takeover’ of Schering-Plough for $41Bn, although technically the smaller Schering-Plough ‘takes over’ [...]
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