Each morning my son races past me as I open his bedroom door. He’s a focused little chap, bundling his way into the bathroom, his dinosaur pyjamas a yellow and navy blur as he races towards the small wicker basket that houses the objects of his curiosity. A colourful range…

“No matter how good your intentions may be, you’re going to have the world come at you faster than you can keep up.” Chances are that this article has just interrupted you. There you were, nicely chugging along on your world-beating train of thought. All of a sudden, a notification…

“The English are always ready to admire anything so long as they can queue up.” George Mikes This week in Parliament. Winding lines of exasperated humans snake round an old Gothic palace. Frustration, disbelief and literal danger pulses through the avoidable queue. The most prestigious workplace in the land is…

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées The current moment lends itself perfectly to test Pascal’s theory. After a couple of months of compliance, adjustment and embracing the novelty of new working practices, we have reached a point where…

“The best way is ever not to attempt to stem a torrent but to divert it” Alexander Hamilton Our immediate response to lockdown was soaked with adrenaline. Urgent action and positive intent. Resilience abounded. We scrabbled to adopt new working practices, lamented our decision to scrimp on home broadband, and…

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” So said poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow many moons ago. As an enforced, unwanted calm settles and strangles the globe, thwarting our positive Springtime intentions and thrusting dose after dose of chaos into our lives, Longfellow’s words…

At 3.30pm each day, my son loves nothing more than bursting through the front door, hurling his shoes down the hallway, ripping off his coat and leaving the frenzied pandemonium of pre-school behind him. His first port of call is his extensive collection of Winnie the Pooh figures. After embracing…

In the midst of adjustments and uncertainty we’re all facing at the moment, we’re more keen than ever to avoid adding to the noise unless our messaging can be of some benefit. With that in mind, we’ve written this post to share what we’ve found to be a really useful…

What stops you from achieving all your goals? Whether they be new year’s resolutions, life ambitions or business goals, we all make aspirational plans about what we might achieve with the right focus and application. In the main these tend to be at least vaguely achievable. …