Autonomy is often used to mean independence. Though their dictionary definitions are similar and they are synonyms of each other, I...

Balancing confidence and humility in any relationship, be it personal or professional, is a real skill. The first step is...

Conflict — it's easy to avoid. In fact, we often do anything we can to avoid it (well, I do) which...

Actor Sam Claflin played Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker, left paralyzed from an accident. Photo Credit: Movie "Me Befor...

Trigger warning: this post contains challenging references to rape and sexual violence. I was moved by Madeleine Holden's piece in The...

I attended a workshop on accessible employment recently and was reminded, as I've written about before, what a fraught topic...

A few weeks ago at the Home and Community Health Association conference, I met some of the team behind CleverCare,...

Eisenhower’s Urgent/Important Principle is one of those nuggets I picked up years ago — probably at some time management course...

When it comes to leading change and creating social movements, particularly when it involves people on the margins of society,...

We all do it. See someone new and, within seconds, our brains start making up stories about them. Or we...

At a meeting with one of my regular clients, I was reminded of an important tension and interesting phenomenon in...

Recently, I spent an hour at Rosebank Primary School in Avondale, Auckland, speaking as a Duffy Books in Homes Role Model. It’s something...

I’ve been reflecting on the complex dynamics of employment relationships (ER) — let’s call them ERs because of the acronym’s...

I've recently changed how I describe myself or, more accurately, my experience. I now talk about "my paradoxical experience as...

Finally, let me reveal my own morphic theory and a simple truth. Controversial biologist Rupert Sheldrake believes that traditions, customs...

I get a lot of people trying to help me. The less they know me the less helpful their help...

There's been a lot of talk, both for and against, NZ opposition leader David Cunliffe's recent public confession that he is sorry to...

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the latest in a long line of sports "stars" to come out as gay in...

Last time, I introduced Rupert Sheldrake and his theory of morphic resonance. To recap, Sheldrake believes that all living things...

The theory of morphic resonance was developed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake and is a concept of collective memory, similar to Jung's collective unconscious. In a nutshell,...