I read quite a lot – for work, for education and for pleasure. Not as much in the last category any more, and less overall than I used to, but there are still a few fiction titles every year, usually in the “damn near brain-dead/guilty pleasure” category. There are very, very few books that I read hundreds of times. The Gruffalo is the only one this year.
It’s probably obvious that I have a young child – the Gruffalo isn’t a religious text, or a set of instructions for life. But there are lessons in it, and the reading of it, just the same. Continue reading “Lessons from the Gruffalo”
(An edited version of this piece appears in “Salmon of the River Lee”, a recently published ode to the river by Dan O’ Donovan. It’s a lovely book, with countless hours of research between the covers, and is available online
If you’ve managed teams or organisations for a while, you know there’s invariably one. The team member who gets categorised as “high-maintenance” or sometimes even “highly strung”. They are valuable members of the team, often solid engineers, technologists or other specialists, but they consume a disproportionate amount of your time as a manager.
Inertia is tough to overcome. We become comfortable, and in becoming comfortable, we become less hungry, more steady state. Energy comes from uncertainty and instability- channeling the energy leads to movement, hopefully in the right direction.
It’s not news that Shakespeare had
It’s to be expected, really. You want to go out clubbing, and the object of your affections, who is significantly older than you, wants to get an early night because they have a parent-teacher meeting first thing in the morning.
I’ve just finished reading Derek Sivers “