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I Learned, among other things...

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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!

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University in Durham

Do what you love, not just what you are good at

Miners on strike play hard rugby


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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!!

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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.


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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.

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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


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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

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
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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


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