3 ways to create safety around mistakes
One thing I often explore with a team or organisation in a Struggle talk, is the culture around making mistakes.Specifically how safe is it, to talk about and learn from mistakes? And what helps?Here are three practical ideas: #my-latest-mistake At Think Productive,...
Facing change and building space
One of the unintended benefits I noticed when the pandemic first hit, and we all had to get used to working and living in a very different way, was that our collective tolerance for imperfection increased. We were all trying new things, reinventing business models and...
What do you do when things don’t work out?
Last week I wrote a column for my local paper on ‘how to find your dream job’. The punch line was essentially: you don’t, you create it as you go. Here’s an extract: The job I do these days didn’t exist when I was choosing my degree and planning my career. But even if...