The nature of emptiness is that it is really quite full – of potential, of ghosts, of memories and perhaps some firefighting equipment.

We are all experts.  Experts at being ourselves.  In fact we are so good, we do not notice our expertise.  That which we take as easy and straightforward is often hugely impressive to others

I had the most wonderful day yesterday. I met and spent time with a most generous colleague who not only told me about his work but allowed me to experience it firsthand. Given that so much of my work is about helping leaders see things with a different lens, it was an amazing opportunity to do so myself.

Look at this image …
Just look…

I spent a while visiting James at the V&A Museum. He filled me up with cappuccino and then simply said; “Let’s wander – you lead….”

Each morning, there is a moment when the doors of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum open to the patiently waiting crowd outside and… nothing happens… no-one moves….

At the end of a walk and talk, I asked the writer Steven D’Souza if he would like to donate an object.
Steven is an internationally renowned educator and thinker.  He gave me the V&A Madjeski Garden.

Does your chair have wheels?

The physical act of walking with another person around the galleries at the V&A is not an “either/or” activity.

An organization chart is a static construction; an organization is active, living. Just like the tube map, the organization chart gives us an idea of where things might be. If we want to find something, we need to come out from underground, walk about and make connections.

Harriet Cunningham is a writer. If you knew her, you would realize she is a natural writer. She is the sort of person who, as a child, you would suspect might have disappeared for an hour and come back having written a short novel about animals in her notebook

Fabiola Williams is a person of seemingly boundless energy – a corporate exec, Gestalt psychotherapist in training, mother, improviser and orangutan saviour, amongst a multiplicity of roles

The act of being different, going to greater or lesser lengths beyond the normal, outside the comfort zone is a risky act.  And it is one that doesn’t always get easier with practice.

If we were to change one word, “but”, to “and”, how would that change the intention and what would be the implications?

When do you become a leader? When do you cross the line?