by Barrie Wyatt | Aug 26, 2014 | Change, Vision, Voluntary and Community
Many of us in the VCS are concerned about the future; where will we get our funding from, will we be able to continue delivering services to our clients, will we survive? When the future seems bleak, it can help to re-envision the future; to me this is really about...
by Barrie Wyatt | Apr 29, 2014 | Performance Management, Vision, Voluntary and Community
What does success look like to you? How will you know whether you have achieved it? I grew up in Peterborough and when I was not playing rugby I used to watch the local football team – Peterborough United. Having left Peterborough many years ago I was able to go...
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 | Feb 18, 2013 | Personal Development, Strategy, Vision
I recently came across a quote by Og Mandino that went: “I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.” It got me thinking why that might be apart from the obvious fact that there is a book in The Bible called the...
by Barrie Wyatt | Aug 31, 2012 | Strategy, Vision
Without a vision … King Solomon once said that “without a vision the people perish”. And more recently George Washington Carver observed that “where there is no vision, there is no hope”. As someone who has been involved in strategy...
