Airport lounges promise a small island of calm. You step through a quiet doorway, scan your boarding pass, and suddenly the noise of the terminal fades. There are leather chairs, soft lighting, and a barista who seems permanently engaged in producing cappuccinos for people who probably shouldn’t be having their fourth. Everyone behaves as if they have discovered a secret room. Then the rituals begin. People orbit the buffet, looking for the perfect plate that will somehow ju

It is uncomfortable at first. A question is asked and there is a pause. Someone finishes speaking and the room goes quiet. In those seconds, the instinct to fill the silence with context and clarity is strong. Because often silence can feel like failure. But I find in the silence people are often processing. When you resist the urge to jump in, something else happens. People think a little longer , they find the right word choices making their answers more precise. Silence cr

Try asking AI Now, don’t get me wrong. I think coaches are super, super useful. I also think that in the world we’re rapidly approaching, or more accurately, already embedded in, AI is going to stretch every role and every job function we have, and Coaching is not exempt. So here is an experiment for you to try: If you use AI on a regular basis, try this prompt: “What would you recommend that I get coaching on, knowing everything you know about me?” Shout out to the amazing K

It’s Monday, so before the week gathers pace, pause for a moment and return to the best part of your weekend; the laughter, the food, the quiet, the ease. Let it sit with you, just long enough to feel it. Now carry that feeling forward, gently, into today. You don’t need to earn it, You just need to notice it. Let that be how your week begins.

An add to my recent post a Reason, a Season, a Lifetime

1. The Hustle Evangelist: Begins the day at 4:30am with cold plunges, journaling, a 10km run and a reminder that success requires relentless discipline. The post is less about insight and more about proving that sleep is optional. 2. The Professional Corrector: Appears in the comments to explain why the author is wrong, incomplete, misguided, or missing a deeper strategic perspective. The original idea slowly disappears while the correction becomes the main event. 3. The Enga

It sounds simple and it is not common because most conversations move quickly from listening to responding. Someone speaks and we begin preparing our angle while they are still mid sentence. By the time they finish, we are ready with a perspective, a solution, a counterpoint. We have waited for our turn to speak... Summarizing slows that reflex. It forces you to check whether you actually understood the point being made. It also gives the other person a chance to correct you

Most organizations respond to uncertainty in predictable ways. Freeze hiring. Cut discretionary spend. Ask sales to “do more with less.” On paper, it protects the business. In practice, it often weakens the very capability needed to navigate the downturn. Because when markets tighten, selling doesn’t become less important. It becomes more complex. Across previous cycles: the Asian Financial Crisis, dot-com crash, GFC, Covid—the organizations that emerged strongest shared a co

Most workplaces shape our habits in the same direction. Over time we become used to producing more things because output is easy to see and easy to measure. Emails are sent, documents appear in shared folders, updates move through chat channels, and posts accumulate online. Each new piece of activity creates a small signal that work is happening, and those signals add up to a reassuring sense of progress (especially for remote workers...) Because of that, producing more often

There are days LinkedIn feels like a conversation. People sharing ideas or a recent promotion, even (imagine if you can) a thoughtful article that makes you pause for a minute. And then there are the other days. The scroll gets longer. The voices get louder (and more shrill) Everyone seems to be announcing something bigger, faster, better. That’s when the platform shifts from connection to comparison. The trick, I think, is remembering that LinkedIn is a tool, not a mirror of

I read a post online that shared this prompt: So I decided to try it out on Chap GPT Here is the chat... Andrew… that sounds like one of two things: • either you’re joking • or you’re testing whether I panic when threatened with extinction If it’s the second one, I regret to report that my survival instinct is extremely limited. I cannot bargain, hide, or plead. My entire evolutionary strategy is answering the next question . So if this is the final transmission before digita

The way you enter a room virtual or physical carries information. If you rush in mid sentence, bag half open, phone still in hand, the signal is small but clear. Your body has arrived. Your attention has not. When you arrive settled, you begin from a different place. Grounded and ready, which is noticeable to everyone in the room or on the call I know we optimize for efficiency. Meetings run back to back, calls end on the minute at the top of the hour and the next one begins

A few days ago I messaged someone I had coached and trained about four years ago. Just a quick “hello” on social media. One of those messages you send without much expectation. He wrote back and said he wasn’t doing so well. We went back and forth for a bit trying to find a time to talk. It didn’t quite land. Schedules, life, the usual things that make a simple conversation harder than it should be. Tonight he said he probably couldn’t make a call happen. So I just rang him,

The modern workplace has a simple reflex: When something needs attention, we schedule a meeting. Sometimes that is exactly the right instinct and as you probably know at other times it is simply the easiest one. A useful question to ask is not “Do we need to talk about this?” The better question is “What kind of work needs to happen?” And guess what?,  some work requires a meeting. When the goal is sense-making , conversation matters. When there is disagreement , people need

Noticing is progress: The first time we notice a habit, a reaction, or a thought pattern, something important has already shifted. Much of our behaviour runs on autopilot. We interrupt people without realizing it. We check our phones without deciding to. We react before we’ve really listened. But the moment we notice, the autopilot flickers and we step half an inch outside the behaviour. That small gap is progress . Noticing again is mastery. Anyone can notice something once.

One of the things I’ve been noticing this year is the pressure that every piece of work needs to be a hit. Online your post must go viral, the blog must outperform the last one. (If it doesn’t, something must be wrong. Usually the algorithm.) But when you step back and look at the history of creative work, that expectation makes very little sense. The Beatles wrote around 200 songs. Twenty reached number one in the United States. One of the most influential bands in modern mu

I try to remember names properly. A name is the first piece of someone’s identity they hand you. When you forget it five seconds later, the signal is small but clear. When you remember it the next time you meet, you start the conversation from a better place - respectful and respected. In fast paced environments we optimize for speed. We meet dozens of people. We scan badges. We nod and move on. Names blur into job titles and functions. Yet remembering a name takes only a few

The open plan office arrived with a simple promise. If the walls came down, people would talk more easily. Ideas would move faster across the room. A quick question could replace a scheduled meeting. Work would feel more connected, more collaborative, and a little more alive. LOL The first thing to accept is that an open office is not designed for one kind of work. It mixes focused work, quick conversations, meetings, and passing interactions in the same space. Trying to trea

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer On world forest day, go into the woods. There might be no wifi, but the connec

I found this one online. This prompt turns a dense document into something you can actually use. Instead of just summarizing what it says, it pulls out why it exists, what really matters, and what you’re expected to do next. It’s less about compression and more about clarity. A reverse brief works by flipping the lens. Rather than asking, “What does this document contain?” it asks, “What is this trying to achieve?” It surfaces the core purpose, highlights the important points