Binge Thinking | Blogging for the mindful | Go Mad Thinking | www.gomadthinking.com http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:45:47 +0000 http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/now-i-am-offically-certified Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 As an NLP practitioner that is! At the end of last month I was locked in a room with another 18 individuals for 7 days with the end result declaring me a certified practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming. NLP is the study of excellence, which describes how our thinking produces our behaviour. http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/now-i-am-offically-certified http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/ten-ways-to-spot-a-great-future-thinker-aged-eight Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Recently I saw an article on the BBC news website, prompted by Lewis Hamilton’s FI championship win, entitled: ‘Ten ways to spot a future F1 champ aged eight’. It basically centred on the fact that he was a promising Go Kart champion at eight years old. http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/ten-ways-to-spot-a-great-future-thinker-aged-eight http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/leadership-lessons-from-nelson-mandela Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday next week he has given an interview to Time Magazine to summarise his top 8 leadership lessons in life. They are mostly practical. Many of them stem directly from his personal experience. As Time says: “All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place”. http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/leadership-lessons-from-nelson-mandela http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/hr-business-or-people-discipline- Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Getting past the depressing front pages of this week’s Personnel Today (‘credit crunch’ ‘500,000 jobs to go’ etc.) my eye was drawn to an article on page 4 entitled: ‘CIPD vows to raise HR profile by working with government’.  In the article (by Guy Logan) it says that ‘Jackie Orme, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), has pledged to work with the government to improve the standing of HR professional in the boardroom.’  http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/hr-business-or-people-discipline- http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/if-i-was-a-banker Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 I hit the pile of mags on my desk today (whilst my computer was being upgraded so I had to tear myself away) and really loved the articles in Growing Business (www.growingbusiness.co.uk) . They have a new columnist Oli Barrett who writes a sort of extended blog on topics that take his interest. http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/if-i-was-a-banker http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/kung-fu-panda Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 My Brother asked me to look after my nephew one weekend over the summer (what summer I hear you cry) well exactly – what do you do with a five year old when it’s chucking it down with rain outside? I made the mistake (or so I thought) of asking him what he wanted to do and his reply was: “I want to go and see Kung Fu Panda Auntie Suze”.  “Oh no” I thought – another animated film that I have to sit through.  But he is a lovely kid and feeds me white minstrels throughout our trips to the movies so let’s do it! http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/kung-fu-panda http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/let-s-lobby-for-a-new-bank-holiday Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Driving to work this morning, I heard Chris Moyles and crew celebrating the fact that this is a bank holiday weekend.  They then put an immediate dampener on it.  No, not due to a terrible weather forecast – evidently it may be OK – no, due to the fact that next Monday will signal the last UK bank holiday of the year.  Well, until Christmas anyway.   http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/let-s-lobby-for-a-new-bank-holiday http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/so-back-to-the-mic-in-the-loo-story Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Three of our team recently returned from a two week to the States where they presented to over 150 enthusiastic and welcoming attendees.  It is safe to say that the team also loved it even when  Jules managed to forget that she had a super small, super powerful, mic attached to her shirt and went off for a ‘comfort break’.  We don’t need to go into details, but all the delegates gathered in the room found out exactly what kind of comfort Jules was looking for until her colleague Jo burst into the Ladies restrooms shouting ‘Jules stop. You are miked up and live!’.   http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/so-back-to-the-mic-in-the-loo-story http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/no-time-to-think Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Well, I’ve hit the ground running as usual on a Monday and find myself, at 2.30pm in the afternoon just catching my breath from ploughing through my to do list.  In short, I’m having a cuppa and actually ‘thinking’ about stuff, not least the bumper packed two-day away team event we all enjoyed on Thursday and Friday of last week (more musings in later episodes…).  http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/no-time-to-think http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/hot-spots Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000 I’m back from holiday, where along with a novel I read one of the many business books that sit on my coffee table at home willing me to find the time to read them.  This one was well worth the effort.  Hot Spots is by Professor Lynda Gratton who undertook the original research as part of an extensive academic study.  Consequently it is packed with more detail and rigorously researched case studies than most business books I read. http://www.gomadthinking.com/binge_thinking/hot-spots