Reward for Failure

As a Mac fan living in Palo Alto at the turn of the century, Steve Jobs was a particularly fascinating character. I read Walter Isaacson’s biography on release and anticipated Danny Boyle’s 2015 movie with relish. It didn’t disappoint. It put a...

Trauma expert

Dr. Bessell van der Kolk was one of the first trauma experts who made sense to me. Here’s a piece I wrote last year about the experience of attending one of his lectures in 1998: SPEECHLESS I am speechless, horrified, pinned motionless in my chair. Grainy images...

What is Leadership

My friend and colleague Pete Hamill published his excellent book Embodied Leadership last year. I don’t find it easy to paraphrase or summarise, so am delighted he’s written this brief piece on leadership for Future Considerations. Highly...

Compelling

Do you more easily relate to having had an adverse childhood experience than childhood trauma? For some, this descriptor will be a portal to exploring the consequence of such experiences, and if your curiousity is piqued, I highly recommend this...

Bouncing Back

I’ve been researching and writing about resilience recently – the ability to bounce back from adversity. Some people seem to have innate skill here, others less so. Piques my curiousity. How is it that some people naturally interpret failures as...
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