We are voracious about expanding our knowledge. It inspires us and opens us to new possibilities. It propels us to think different and bigger and bolder. We are a little bit obsessed by it… Here’s what is currently inspiring us. This page changes regularly. Please come back and visit often.
Thoughts in a 2-Minute Read
The self control required to work from home is exhausting us.
In a meeting with a client today we were discussing the programme of talks for their Working Parent Network next year and the conversation kept on circling back to boundaries, or rather lack of...
Will the pandemic reshape notions of leadership?
Around the globe leaders have spent the past few months facing one of the toughest leadership tests. If ever the phrase VUCA (the acronym for volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of...
What defines a good line manager in these times?
We know that managers are integral in making things work for working parents. Working parents tell us that the line manager is the single most important external factor that can make or break them....
Reading
The Time Paradox by John Boyd and Philip Zimbardo
If there is one thing that working parents don't have enough of it is time. Forever chasing the unforgiving minute, needed in more than one place at the same time, multitasking, juggling and so on....
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra
We love this book. It dispels the popular leadership notion that there is one authentic self, it speaks to the VUCA world leaders have to navigate now and it champions the idea of ACTION over...
49 Ways to Write Yourself Well by Jackee Holder
The compelling science of journalling is now well known. It is the most effective tool at raising the self awareness critical for leadership and working parenthood. But where do you start? 49 Ways...
Watching
Optimising the Performance of the Human Mind: Steve Peters at TEDxYouth
You may be familiar with the best selling Chimp Paradox by - get a top up in 13 minutes by watching Dr Steve Peters explain the theory of the Chimp paradox that some of us know as the Inner critic....
Brené Brown
What's not to love. Brown at her best, vulnerable, funny, straight-talking and oozing in evidence for all her theories. Just watch! Available at Netflix
Why gender equality is good for everyone
TED Talk - Why gender equality is good for everyone - Men Included | Michael Kimmel (16 minutes) Funny but not trivial or superficial. From around the 8 minute mark it picks up on why gender...
Listening
Brené Brown: Unlocking Us
Brené Brown has an approachability and wisdom that draws you in and makes the listener feels seen and heard and valued. Her humour helps as does her huge intellect and he attention to language and...
Breaking the Burnout cycle
"Burnout undermines success, it doesn't make it more likely. You can't be productive if you are running on empty" says Arianna Huffington on the Breaking the Burnout Cycle podcast produced by the...
Anne Helen Petersen: Errand Paralysis
“Errand paralysis” is a symptom of our culture’s general obsession with efficiency, optimization, and ultimately being a “good worker.” Which is all leading to ever-increasing rates of burnout...
