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Making Room For People

Making Room For People

I, like many people, believed I knew everything when I was 16. And naturally, knowing everything meant that I needed no one, so meeting new people in my mind was a case of them getting on side with me because I was going places and they really needed to get involved. I certainly don’t think [...]

A Work In Progress

A Work In Progress

Yesterday was great fun. My post attracted plenty of heated debate and controversy, as well as some great discussion. But what stood out to me was the criticism directed directly at me, because in my post I was confronting behaviour on Twitter that I used to partake of myself. So let the confession begin: I have [...]

Twitter: Something has to Change

I have made incredible connections and friends through Twitter. So please understand, I’m not a ranting man nor do I have a grudge. My problem isn’t with Twitter. It’s with its users. During the last week of my holiday (a holiday that I’m still in the midst of), I have continually found nothing of any [...]

Perspective

Perspective

When spinning so many plates as a husband, business man, a pastor (not the pastor, BTW), and handling all the curve balls of life, you sometimes come crashing down to the ground. I’m sure you’ve been there too – am I right? When you’re living on the ground, you can’t see the wood for the [...]

Ubiquitous Business

The other week some of the Interns at Aaron+Gould were tasked to make this video. Unfortunately they were a little on the shy side and so I ended up being the one talking to the public, but that is fine with me, because I love people! If you watch you’ll see how young person after [...]

You've Helped Me Find My Voice

You've Helped Me Find My Voice

Yesterday’s blog post received 1 comment. The author of this comment has been for the last three weeks almost without exception the first person to comment on every article I’ve posted. So when I saw that, yet again, they were not only thanking me for the post, but extending the thoughts further, and encouraging me [...]

Every Innovator Is Winging It

This awesome video is doing the rounds at the moment. For some it’s an ‘aha!’ moment when they finally realise the revolution that is Social Media. For the Digitialls, this is yesterday’s bit of viral excitement, giving us confidence that all our time spent on Twitter isn’t wasted But for me, as I watched yesterday… [...]

Maximize Your Strengths

Maximize Your Strengths

As a perfectionist I have an obsessive problem with anything that is less than perfect. So no surprise then that growing up I was never organised because I could never develop the perfect organisational system – it was just never ‘quite right’. Roll forward to 2009, and I have been forced into organisational ability, with [...]

Cast Your Bread On The Social Media Waters

Cast Your Bread On The Social Media Waters

“Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.” That’s from the Bible, believe it or not. A seemingly contradictory statement, I have indeed found on many occasions that when I have put something ‘out there’, it has unexpectedly come back to me. Today I want to look at social [...]

5 Steps For Making Quality Decisions

5 Steps For Making Quality Decisions

Last week, Olivier Blanchard, inspired by a post from Amber Nasuland, posted a great piece on ‘What Won’t You Compromise On‘. Having written about the same thing myself last week with practically the same title, it was very pertinent as the ideas were fresh in my head and I was still molding my thoughts into [...]