Resilience Ninja

Coaching and ideas to help build agile and resilient practices.

… getting their attention

Hopefully I have your attention! The new issue of Continuity Magazine is available, which includes an article I wrote entitled “Getting their attention”. It is about the nature of Executive exercising and the benefits that can flow from expanding our focus, embracing something different and exercising emerging threats – rather than the same old, tired, scenarios and […]

… failing to change = planning to fail

Good read here from Phil Wood at Bucks New University. Failure to Change Kills Resilience | bucks new uni security. “Real resilience is about mindsets and approach.” Too true, shame we keep promoting the old mindsets and approaches.  Last year I was awarded BC Paper of the Year for “A Fork in the Road”. Included […]

… Ideas and Praxis

This is a photo of Karl Marx’ grave in Highgate Cemetery, London. I didn’t have a digital camera the day I was there, so this is somebody else’s photo. Everybody has heard the quote carved at the top of the monument – but the one at the bottom is often less well-known. The philosophers have […]

… Focus in 2014

Happy New Year to all readers, I hope you have had a safe and enjoyable holiday season. Back to work for many this week, and therefore a time we start to think about our ‘New Year’s Resolutions’ – all the things we want to do differently, or areas where we plan to implement changes this […]

… resilience, agility and The Times supplement

During the week (26 November to be exact), The Times (UK) distributed a special  supplement published by Raconteur, entitled “The Agile Business”. This is something I probably would have missed as I don’t live in the UK and even when I am visiting I don’t generally read The Times. Fortunately I know people who contributed […]