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People Intelligence BlogApplying emotional intelligence to personal and professional development. Friday, July 04, 2008
If, like me, you love people talking in everyday language, you'll enjoy Will's take on this. Will Smith Interview with Tavis Smiley posted by Maureen @ 9:05 AM 0 comments Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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Let me guess: You're busy In the last month I've worked with people in Mumbai, Prague, Toronto and London. And in each place I've asked: Who's busy? The most typical answer I get? A laugh ... just slightly tinged with tiredness and despair. Who ISN'T busy is perhaps the better question. There's no getting away from it. Part of the greatest challenge of getting more Great Work into your life is the constant, never-ceasing flood of Good Work that's rushing in at you from all corners. And that means you're in Processing mode Work in, work out. You're uber-efficient, getting stuff done, emails sorted, meetings attended. In fact, you only realize just how quickly things (and you) are moving when you come back from vacation, and it takes you a day or two to get back into the swing of things, to pick up the pace. But being busy isn't the road to success. The 90/10 rule A 2002 Harvard Business Review article, "Beware the Busy Manager" found that 90% of the managers they surveyed were involved in 'busy work" - and only 10% had the right combination of focus and energy to do the work that matters. Part of the secret to getting into - and staying in - that 10% is the capacity to stop. And be still. And figure out what's important. It's the difference between being strategic or staying tactical. In fact, some say that busyness is a form of laziness. Because you're too lazy to work out what not to do. The ways stillness helps you 1. Stillness gives you Power Keith Johnstone is regarded as the father of improvisational theatre. In his book Impro, he talks about one of the key dynamics of this art form, the difference between high status and low status. If there are two people on stage, one will have high status, the other low. That status is not derived from their nominal roles (In King Lear we can see how a king can be low status and a fool can be high status). It comes from your presence, how you hold yourself. High status people will hold themselves still. Especially their head and hands. So, on a personal level, stillness can help you increase your influence by boosting your status. Action: Just practice this: Keep your head and hands still as you sit here now in your chair, and notice the shift that occurs in you. 2. Stillness influences the system. Watch this short video first to see this in action. Standing still changes how people react to you. It may not be instantly, but soon people will ask: what's going on here? And it will change what you notice in the system. It can help you notice patterns and to get a "meta" view. And that new perspective can help you to work out what really matters. Don't take my word for it Smart folks thinking out loud about calm and stillness. "Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American author "Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought." -Thucydides, Greek historian "Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat." - Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher "One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on." - D.H. Lawrence, British author "Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." - Michael Caine, British actor "I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do." - Miquel Indurain, Spanish cyclist "Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea." - Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet posted by Maureen @ 12:14 PM 0 comments Tuesday, March 04, 2008
 Visit www.madweekends.tv This is me going in a slightly new direction and brings together, I believe, the best of my work to date - individual development with a strong focus on quality and the end result of making a difference. It's for people who want a fresh approach to making a difference - e.g. entrepreneurs, individuals seeking more meaningful use of their time / money, senior managers exploring corporate social responsibility, people choosing new futures through redundancy options or early retirement... You can also print off the pdf brochure (which is available for download on the website) if you'd like a paper version to pass on to people. MAD%20Weekends In celebration of the first ever Make a Difference Weekend (18, 19 and 20 April) you can save 66% of the regular programme price. There are only 24 places available. You can register your interest on the website. Come along and be inspired by Cameron Saul (our Saturday evening after dinner speaker) from "one of the most imaginative charities on earth" (The Independent 23/02/08) Exciting times. posted by Maureen @ 1:07 PM 0 comments Wednesday, December 19, 2007
I've found this resource a wonderful energy tonic for my self management recently. Sit back and enjoy. sunrise I particularly like the moose one! Warm wishes for Xmas and an inspired 2008. posted by Maureen @ 10:23 AM 0 comments Wednesday, September 19, 2007
 The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. (Thanks to Steve Nobel. Source Rumi ~ Persian Poet.) posted by Maureen @ 9:50 AM 0 comments Thursday, August 16, 2007
750 megawatt-hours can power for an entire year: 77 North American homes 150 European homes 268 African homes 536 Asian or South American homes 3,750 homes in Afghanistan 6,000 televisions 800 microwaves An Australian company called Heap Media have created a Google-powered site called blackle.com. The site keeps a running total of the number of watts saved to date. At press time, that number was nearly 135 million watt-hours. I've made Blackle my home page. Find out more about Blackle. posted by Maureen @ 9:47 PM 0 comments |
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