by Barrie Wyatt | Feb 5, 2014 | Coaching, Personal Development
The Four Steps of Learning – The Learning Ladder I read an excellent book last year Connectome by Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There was, at least for me, an unexpected quote in the...
by Barrie Wyatt | May 8, 2013 | Coaching, Personal Development
Worry can negatively impact our professional, social and private lives. I have been challenged recently to view life more positively and to look for “the wonder” in everyday experiences wherever I find myself. Thinking about this brought back a memory of a...
by Barrie Wyatt | Apr 7, 2013 | Change, Coaching, Personal Development, Strategy, Vision
The idea of categorising the world into hedgehogs and foxes has a long and distinguished past. An ancient Greek poem (possibly written by Archilochus) concluded with: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this poem, a cunning fox wants to...
by Barrie Wyatt | Feb 27, 2013 | Change, Coaching, Performance Management, Vision
In my previous blog, The Acts of the Apostles, I discussed the need to act as what we do is what people will remember about us. This blog takes a different approach and starts from the point of view that we are first and foremost human beings, not human doings, and it...
by Barrie Wyatt | Jan 23, 2013 | Coaching, Personal Development
I read a promotional article recently that was trying to pursuade me to spend money on a product. It claimed that constantly and in every aspect of my life, there is a fierce battle taking place in my mind as two forces battle for control over my thoughts, actions and...
by Barrie Wyatt | Jan 21, 2013 | Coaching, Personal Development
There are a number of versions of the ‘wheel of life’ that I want to mention. The first is the bhavacakra, an instructional figure in Buddhism. It is a symbolic representation of the cycle of existand found on the outside walls of Tibetan and Indian...
