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My Offer Of Being Helpful A Little Everyday (almost)

My Offer Of Being Helpful A Little Everyday (almost)

What makes the world go around?  I think part of the secret sauce of what makes the world worth enduring is neither money nor fame. I think that it is being helpful to other people - personally a...

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Joy and Genocide. Happy Birthday to me!

Joy and Genocide. Happy Birthday to me!

[caption id="attachment_2877" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: rafael-castillo - CC BY 2.0[/caption] Today is April 7th. It is my birthday. Today I celebrate making it to 40 years old, when 10.5 mi...

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My conclusions from doing 30 days of free remote organisation coaching

My conclusions from doing 30 days of free remote organisation coaching

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Oza Meilleur - CC BY 2.0[/caption] In December, I made this offer and invited help to learn how it might work. I got 11 responses and chose 3 organis...

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Why I might not want to work with you

Why I might not want to work with you

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Forest Runner - CC BY 2.0[/caption] I pride myself on being able to find common ground with most people. To find the shared value and work with them ...

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#MH370 - Are we believing our own hype?

#MH370 - Are we believing our own hype?

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Forest and Kim Starr - CC BY 2.0[/caption] As the painstaking search for MH370 continues and as families wait desperately for news - any news - of th...

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My day: The best app ever, meetings that work and The "Us and Them" messages in companies

My day: The best app ever, meetings that work and The "Us and Them" messages in companies

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Maxpax - CC BY 2.0[/caption] Today was awesome. Here  are just a few things that I experienced. The Best App Ever I wrote the best app ever. Well, I ...

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Why You Might Need To Hire Differently To Fix Your Broken Company

Why You Might Need To Hire Differently To Fix Your Broken Company

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: West Vancouver Archives - CC BY 2.0[/caption] Recently I've been working on an experiment to learn how to help companies improve by working with them...

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Is Your Company Broken?

Is Your Company Broken?

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: public-sector-lists.com | government data services - CC BY 2.0[/caption]   Many companies are broken - some deeply. Yet, many remain profitabl...

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5 Recent Things I am Learning from My Remote #Coaching Experiment

5 Recent Things I am Learning from My Remote #Coaching Experiment

I have spent the last couple of weeks on the road - travelling to spend two days each with two of the five organisations that are participating in my remote coaching experiment. The time I have spent ...

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An exclusive invitation to help me decide what to blog next.

An exclusive invitation to help me decide what to blog next.

I would love your help in deciding what to write next as a blog post. I want to write things that  entertain, inform and challenge conventional thinking. On the following Trello board are the ideas I...

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