Are Your Traditions Strangling Your Progress?
By: Michael McQueen
A number of years ago, a team of researchers conducted a fascinating and somewhat callous experiment in an effort to understand the process of conditioned behaviour. Read more
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Why Are Digital Natives Finding Online Work So Unnatural?
By: Michael McQueen
Working from home has certainly been far from bliss for many of us. Attempting to do our office work within the clutter and distraction of home, navigating complex online modes of engagement and doing so within the stress of such an uncertain time has made this new work form challenging. Read more
Why You Should Let Go of Your Self-Esteem
By: Michael McQueen
Everybody loves an ego boost. The word of encouragement from the colleague, the compliment from the spouse or the pat on the back from the boss work wonders for our sense of self-esteem. Read more
How Automation Might Save Your Career
By: Michael McQueen
Automation is a word that often strikes fear into workers who cannot help but feel threatened by its emergence in the modern world. Most of what we hear about automation surrounds the ways it will take our jobs and force the everyday worker into irrelevance. Read more
After COVID-19: What Will Never Be the Same
By: Michael McQueen
With the dramatic changes that have occurred across the globe in recent months in the midst of our modern crisis, many of our standing systems have had to rework their regular ways of doing business. Read more
3 Keys to Asking Better Questions
By: Michael McQueen
I’m sure we have all at some point felt the effects of bad conversation. Awkwardness, offence, miscommunication are all rooted in conversations that didn’t achieve what they were supposed to. Read more
Why We Should Rethink the 3 ‘r’s of Education
By: Michael McQueen
Readin, writin’ and ‘rithmetic… I’m sure that if many of us Gen X and older were to return to our schooling days it may have resembled something like this. For generations, education has involved the rote learning of dates, formulas and quotes which are forgotten as soon as they are assessed. Read more
3 Essentials for an Age of Complexity
By: Michael McQueen
In the world we are living in, it seems that by the day, information becomes more and more convoluted and issues become more and more complex. Read more
From Isolation to Innovation: The Unparalleled Power of a Scattered Team
By: Michael McQueen
If this time has offered any opportunity to us, it is the radical breaking of convention that businesses, brands and individuals have had to respond and adapt to. Read more
3 Everyday Enemies of Your Tenacity
By: Michael McQueen
Miriam is quick in the centre but loses heart. Joyce understands the game but could move a little quicker; Audrey places herself well but lacks height.
I recently came across this extract from the sports notes section of the annual magazine from a girl’s school in the 1930s.[1] Read more