August 2007

The Flip: how to start turning your life around right now

You will have seen this picture before. If you look at it one way it’s a caricatured old lady – look, there’s her chin at the bottom centre of the picture. If you look at it another way, it’s a 1/4 profile of a young girl – the tip of the old lady’s nose becomes

Epictetus on learning – thought for the day

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” – Epictetus The most accessible account of the stoic philosophy of Epictetus is probably in Tom Wolfe’s superb novel A Man In Full – an immensely vivid and readable account of all classes in the American South in the nineties.

Appreciative Inquiry: What Is It?

I’ve looked around the web for a short and easy-to-understand description of Appreciative Inquiry for a while, without much success. Which is why I think this article is needed…. What is Appreciative Inquiry? Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a way of looking at organisational change which focuses on doing more of what is already working, rather

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