Navigating pressure zones: a post from Automattic's Innovation Exchange
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Innovation thrives when we understand and navigate the fine line between comfort and stress effectively. By staying mainly in the ‘stretch zone,’ we harness the right amount of pressure that propels growth without leading into panic.
Innovation
Evidence-based practice for project design
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Evidence based design is an established approach to using evidence to inform decisions (not just using evidence to back up something you already think).
Work
Delegation frameworks
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One of the challenges of leadership is how to decide what to delegate, when, and to whom. Here’s a simple and memorable framing, to help make decisions around delegation and prioritisation.
Work
Balancing open and closed questions in sales
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Stepping into that meta conversation space enables us to wield open and closed questions like a dance – playing the three dimensional conversational chess that sometimes involves moving one piece to see what the other party will do, then adjusting our original plan.
Organisational culture
Goal orientation for maximum motivation: approach versus avoidance
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Consciously framing goals in 'approach' terms (growth mindset) motivates teams better than 'avoidant' framed goals, during challenging times. But, this may be flipped on its head when writing proposals for executive teams.
Leadership
Nobody Rides the Unicorn: theatre review
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It was amazing how much expression an apparently expressionless puppet can achieve when well manipulated - fear, excitement, sadness, euphoria all in small movements of hands and head.
Reviews
Titus Andronicus: theatre review
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Titus Andronicus was an absolute joy for anyone who likes their Shakespeare shaken up, electro-shocked à la Frankenstein – something rather beautiful and terrible jolted into vivid life.
Reviews
Ripon Cathedral's lunchtime concerts: Josephine Peach - music review
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“There’s one thing you must tell him – let him explore.” Josephine Peach’s advice to me for my 7 year old son, about to start his first piano lessons.
Music
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Review
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Nothing staid or restrained about this 'gallery' - it is all touch and running and sunshine.
Reviews
Gordon Baldwin - Objects for a Landscape - art and workshop review
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Called ‘Clouds made of Clay’, the workshop was responding to one of Baldwin’s particular inspirations, cloud formations.
Reviews
Clare Woods - The Unquiet Head
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Two things struck me: the sheer scale of the paintings, and their glorious physicality, in the boldness of colour and glossy liquidity of the surfaces.
