I’m going for another walk.
mhsutton As you might know – I like to walk. So on the 10th of September I’ll be heading to Santander in beautiful Cantabria, Spain to complete the walk I started…
Humanity
On Suicide.
Might helping people who consider suicide, to feel less trapped and more in control, be helpful to managing suicidal thoughts?
Mike’s theory of arcs and angles
One goal, which path would you take? Imagine you had a goal – perhaps to lose weight or to learn a skill, or even to build some capacity/capability as a…
I Want to Help One Billion People Prioritise Their Happiness
A very bizarre set of events led me to discover Mo Gawdat and his movement onebillionhappy. This highly inspiring man who could, by all accounts, be sitting in his wealth,…
Bullies and Bluebells
I was recently in a dialogue with a client and the conversation turned to “Evil Scrum” and some previous negative experiences that some people had experienced. They imposed velocity targets…
10 Days into #LinkyBrains and this is what it's about for me.
10 mad days It has been the maddest 10 days of my life and I’ve had plenty mad. Time to reflect on this LinkyBrain thing – taking in all the…
Why I don't cheat.
A tale of 2 exam papers Twenty seven years ago, in a small but important town in southern Nigeria, two teenage boys – bored with revising for their GCSEs –…
Be a Person of Substance
I love to take my dog – Maya – for walks and she loves it when I throw for her and she fetches. A long throw really helps her open…
Yes, learning is hard. But do it anyway.
It seems popular, these days, for coaches and consultants to talk about ‘continuous learning’ or the ‘learning organisation’. Learning is like sex – everyone nods knowingly when it is being…
I can't write about colonialism or the Commonwealth
I’ve been trying, without success, for the last month to write a blog post on the curse of colonialism and the abomination that is the Commonwealth. As I explore my…