The summer is a great time to catch up with some reading, but put the chick-lit and the crime thrillers down (at least for a while) and pick up some really nourishing brainfood. I’m delighted to introduce the inaugural Extraordinary Business Book Club Summer Reading List! These are the books I’ll be taking in my suitcase […]
Continue readingYesterday I promised you a post about all the GOOD things that came out of my 365-day running streak. Yesterday it was raining, and I was still a bit poorly and cross at having had to run while feeling so rubbish. Today it’s still raining, but I’m better, which means everything looks more positive. So […]
Continue readingOn 11 September 2016, I accidentally committed to running and blogging every day, with no end date. (You can read how it happened here, but basically, it was all Seth Godin’s fault.) Yesterday, I completed a full year of running and blogging every day. It wasn’t a very good run, to be honest: I’ve had […]
Continue readingIt’s International Literacy Day today, as it has been every 8 September since UNESCO established it in 1965. We’ve come a long way since then, but still today, as UNESCO’s website reminds us: ‘Some 775 million adults lack minimum literacy skills; one in five adults is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women; […]
Continue readingThe last lesson I’m going to share with you/burden you with from our Disney experience is this: there’s always someone watching. The signs on the ‘no entry’ doors at Disney don’t read ‘Staff Only’, they read ‘Cast Members Only’. Every single person who works in Disneyland – the poor sweating souls in the Disney costumes, […]
Continue readingYou’d think if any company had reached a point where it could rest on its laurels, it would be Disney. One of the biggest brands in the world, with perhaps the most iconic, recognisable characters in the world of entertainment, a slick operation, massive profits. And yet, it never stops. When Walt Disney opened Disneyland […]
Continue readingWe’ve been in Disneyland Paris for the last few days, and I’m writing this on the ferry back home, feeling like I need another holiday to recover. Our favourite ride – I lost count of the number of times we queued for it – was Big Thunder Mountain, a rollercoaster pretending to be an out-of-control […]
Continue readingIn this week’s podcast episode, I talk to Warren Knight, speaker, consultant and author of Think #Digital First (you can listen to the full interview here). What really struck me in our conversation was the way in which Warren exemplified the entrepreneurial mindset, even as a very young man. He saw opportunities and took them, […]
Continue readingYesterday marked 350 days of running and blogging every day: nearly the year. And I’m going to make the year, of course – whatever it takes. You don’t get to within a fortnight of the end and quit (or at least I don’t plan to). But I won’t be carrying on every day after that. […]
Continue readingWhat do you think of when you think of balance in life? One of my bootcampers is exploring this at the moment: what began as a book about how to achieve a better balance has taken off in a fascinating new direction (as book so often do) about what balance means, and whether it’s actually […]
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