If you have a job for life, you’d better make sure it’s your passion, lest it become your poison.

A job for life is more of a life sentence.

Sure, it provides security, if that’s what you’re looking for.

Yes, nice steady income, low risk, paying the bills.

Mediocre and boring.

Aren’t you worth more than this? Read More

Realists always proclaim you have to consider feasibility and look logically at things before you get too carried away.

Can you name a single realist that has ever achieved anything remarkable?

Yet if you are rash and care not for realism, you’re likely end face down in the dirt. Read More

Who is having a laugh at you right now?

They say something, do something, that makes you mad.

Do they do it on purpose? Surely not, they are just ignorant.

Either way, you have a problem. Read More

While walking with a new friend, she shared with me her dream to be a writer.

I asked her, “What have you published?” Read More

It is vital to have escalation procedures in place.

Natural to hit a problem and refer it to your boss.

Easy to throw the issue to someone else to deal with.

Yet whenever you escalate, you pass responsibility and control to others. Read More

Free yourself from the influence of external events, people and things.

Free yourself from those with hidden agendas and obscure pitches, those who play your emotions and your past.

Once you free your mind and heart, even from your past, then you can decide and be strong and independent - you can call the shots, in your life. Read More

To make handling the politics easy, the very best thing you can do is get curious.

Why?

Because you have a lot of work to do.

Only when you have done that work will it become easy.

That work involves building relationships, understanding agendas, considering scenarios, dealing with Machiavellian characters, creating goodwill, doing favours, helping people in trouble, and much more besides.

None of which you have time for, because you have a proper job to do. Read More

Before you make your move, make sure you really understand how the world looks from their side of the table.

No, you don’t need to agree with them, you have to understand your opposition.

Imagine sitting in their seat for a moment. Pretend to hold their values, have their experiences,

Most importantly, consider what it is like to be driving forward their agenda (professional and personal). Read More

When all eyes turn towards you, and the heat is on, make sure you don’t take it personally.

I totally applaud those who step up and take responsibility.

Those are the people who will go far.

Provided that in so doing, they don’t take things too personally.

For anyone doing great things, it is inevitable that the disturbance will create ripples, and some of those may not be very pleasant. Read More