July 27

Do you have the right work/life balance?

Do you have the right work/life balance?

Quite a few years ago, I worked with an interim consultant who told me a story about when they went on a fly/drive holiday to the US. After traveling from London Heathrow to Las Vegas, they picked up their hire car and headed off out into the desert. The plan was that they would make their way around Nevada, Arizona etc. take in some of the sights, such as the Grand Canyon, and generally take in that part of the world.

At the time they had a really high pressure job, lots of demands on their time and were constantly either on the phone/email.

July 9

If you want to succeed, then learn how to bounce back

If you want to succeed, then learn how to bounce back

If you had been able to ask Steve Jobs how he felt in 1985 when he was fired from Apple, what would you have expected him to say? His friends reported that they found him curled up in a foetal position on a mattress in his unfinished house. This is far from the pervading image we have of him now, as the black turtleneck sweater clad icon to whom we might relate to now.

However there was something about Jobs that enabled him to not only found Pixar (sold to Disney) but to return to Apple and turn it into one of the most profitable companies in the world.