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After avoiding ‘the’ lurgie for 3 years, it finally found me in February 2023. I was spared any unpleasant cold/flu/respiratory symptoms,...

I don't know about you, but this year has been a huge one for me. I don't think I'm the only one. It seems like the combination of a lot...

Each year I participate in an adventure race with my sister-in-laws. I'm incredibly blessed to have three amazing sister-in-laws who are...

Have you ever been in a nasty accident or a near-miss situation? If so, you might have had that experience of your memory of the incident...

Why is it SO HARD to break away from the status quo?? Have you noticed the magnetic-like attraction we have to the nice, easy,...

Blog consistency is one thing I've not yet nailed. The past month has been a blur of home and property projects with hard deadlines, the...

What is the toughest decision you have had to make? And why was it tough? Now think about whether the decision you eventually made was a...

If I could bottle uninterrupted thinking time and sell it - I reckon I'd be onto something! Quality thinking time is something that...

When I started developing my own strategic thinking material, it was off the back of an experience developing a recruiting strategy where...

Gosh, it's so easy to lose sight of priorities when everything seems urgent, isn't it?? I'm working with an organisation at the moment...

One of the most common questions I get asked after introducing the CPP is – can it change? In other words, can you teach someone to...

If strategic thinking features in your organisation’s competency framework, you are not alone. Talking to a talent specialist the other...

Even at the best of times, our brains are not wired for thinking strategically, they are wired to fight fires. Our survival instinct...

I've spent a lot of time understanding strategic thinking as a competency. As I mentioned in my last webinar, cognitive aspects of...

"Everything I learned about making impossible decisions during the first two years of my presidency culminated in one of the toughest...

Most of us are paid to think, but finding thinking time can be one of the hardest things to do. Here are a couple of quick tips.

Most of us are paid to think. We are paid to make decisions, and decisions require thinking. The better our thinking, the better our...

Let me introduce three leaders I’ve met recently. Kate said strategic thinking was the easy part of her job. Louise said she thought she...

If you are reading this because you’re interested in the answer for yourself, then you are probably either in a strategic role, or...

I know how you feel. I was in your shoes once. I was starting with the question “What even is strategy??” I read books, and I looked...