I Learned, among other things...
Grew up in Chester, England
I like villages and countryside, I’m not fond of big cities
I love ‘home’, the feeling of sanctuary
It’s not grim up north, but its pretty wet!
I like villages and countryside, I’m not fond of big cities
I love ‘home’, the feeling of sanctuary
It’s not grim up north, but its pretty wet!
University in Durham
Do what you love, not just what you are good at
Miners on strike play hard rugby
Do what you love, not just what you are good at
Miners on strike play hard rugby
One year travelling the world
Having little money makes one pretty resourceful
Don’t think about the next place until you have properly absorbed the current place
Losing weight is easier than a lot of people think, particularly in India!!
Having little money makes one pretty resourceful
Don’t think about the next place until you have properly absorbed the current place
Losing weight is easier than a lot of people think, particularly in India!!
12 Years marketing in Unilever
I love Unilever. I'm drawn toward organisations with ‘kindness’ at their heart
Don’t launch instant tea granules to the British. Low margin, low taste, low volume, low point!
Having simply too many leaders creates tiers of time and tiers of energy loss.
I love Unilever. I'm drawn toward organisations with ‘kindness’ at their heart
Don’t launch instant tea granules to the British. Low margin, low taste, low volume, low point!
Having simply too many leaders creates tiers of time and tiers of energy loss.
8 years Innovation Consultant at ?Whatif!
Leadership is a creative act
Working at The Best Place to Work is a buzz that will stay with me forever. Work really can be a fantastic part of life.
Surround myself with bright, creative people.
Leadership is a creative act
Working at The Best Place to Work is a buzz that will stay with me forever. Work really can be a fantastic part of life.
Surround myself with bright, creative people.
Colleen, my wife
Her capacity for love and tireless pursuit of life
An endless sense of possibility. Get out there!
I should never have admitted I could iron
Her capacity for love and tireless pursuit of life
An endless sense of possibility. Get out there!
I should never have admitted I could iron
3 gorgeous kids
As my mate Neil Munn said “Can’t wait for them to wake up, can’t wait for them to go to bed”
Love, Laughter, live the moment
"I can make a positive difference to peoples' lives" - my 9 year old daughter Grace
As my mate Neil Munn said “Can’t wait for them to wake up, can’t wait for them to go to bed”
Love, Laughter, live the moment
"I can make a positive difference to peoples' lives" - my 9 year old daughter Grace
My Values
Well, I call them values, but they are beliefs that I hold very deeply and that I hope guide my attitude and behaviours when I'm at my best
Quotations that resonate with me
My friends and colleagues would tell you that I seem to be able to remember quotations, lyrics from songs, lines from films and generally lots of trivia. There are some, however, that seem to just hit the mark for me. Please feel free to suggest more.
Life
How are you with how it is? - Darren Rudkin
Get busy living, or get busy dying - Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing – Billy Connolly
You realise, when you are deep in the middle of life’s ocean, all you really have are your values - Pete Goss, Trans-Global Sailor and adventurer
What would you rather, someone crash into your car or someone steal your favourite chocolate biscuit - Felix White
Our lives are defined not by what we achieve or who we become but by the choices we make
There is no such thing as ‘work-life balance.’ If work can’t be part of life then stop work or get a life!
Face it, don’t Facebook it
Purpose
Are you working on something important or simply something interesting - Curt Carlson SRI
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out - Dickie Dobbins
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction - John Kennedy
We must have purpose. We must not be purposeless. We must not exhibit purposelessness. We must be purposelessnessless - Rowan Atkinson
Enery Follows purpose, amd there is purpose in everything - K Bradford Brown
Leadership
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things – Peter Drucker
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it - Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them - Richard M. Nixon
There is no greater method than the good example – Ingvar Kamprad
Talent
I’d rather have a hole than an a**hole - Dan Walker, Apple
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone – John F Kennedy
Creativity
Inspiration occurs when you meet the world openly…with something on your mind
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something – Frank Capra
First create tension, then create space. Then create
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity - Oprah Winfrey
My friends and colleagues would tell you that I seem to be able to remember quotations, lyrics from songs, lines from films and generally lots of trivia. There are some, however, that seem to just hit the mark for me. Please feel free to suggest more.
Life
How are you with how it is? - Darren Rudkin
Get busy living, or get busy dying - Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
There’s no such thing as bad weather, just inappropriate clothing – Billy Connolly
You realise, when you are deep in the middle of life’s ocean, all you really have are your values - Pete Goss, Trans-Global Sailor and adventurer
What would you rather, someone crash into your car or someone steal your favourite chocolate biscuit - Felix White
Our lives are defined not by what we achieve or who we become but by the choices we make
There is no such thing as ‘work-life balance.’ If work can’t be part of life then stop work or get a life!
Face it, don’t Facebook it
Purpose
Are you working on something important or simply something interesting - Curt Carlson SRI
A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out - Dickie Dobbins
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction - John Kennedy
We must have purpose. We must not be purposeless. We must not exhibit purposelessness. We must be purposelessnessless - Rowan Atkinson
Enery Follows purpose, amd there is purpose in everything - K Bradford Brown
Leadership
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things – Peter Drucker
Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it - Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader - John Quincy Adams
People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them - Richard M. Nixon
There is no greater method than the good example – Ingvar Kamprad
Talent
I’d rather have a hole than an a**hole - Dan Walker, Apple
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone – John F Kennedy
Creativity
Inspiration occurs when you meet the world openly…with something on your mind
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something – Frank Capra
First create tension, then create space. Then create
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity - Oprah Winfrey
