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The importance of being Bored
I am terrible at being bored. I fill my days with a constant stream of activities. Three days ago, I was with my daughter on a beautiful Costa Brava beach. We were on a journey to explore the ruins of...
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"You are not doing that right!"
When someone tells me that I am wrong, what do I learn? “You are not doing that right!” “How did you let this happen?” Do I learn what is intended? I don’t think so. I don’t often know what is...
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Everyone Must Learn to Code
When I was 9 years old, my father brought a Commodore Vic 20 computer home for Christmas. It came with 3k memory. It had a keyboard, a tape drive and it connected to a TV. I still remember sitting...
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Closing Chapters: If you are falling, dive.
When I was 13 years old, American Football became the passion of my group of friends at school in Dublin. We would play our version of touch American Football up on a tarmac area behind school. I...
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The Future of Education. Review: Coursera “Greek and Roman Mythology”
I finished my first expedition into the world of MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – this week. I have completed a 10 week course on Coursera run by a team led by Dr. Struck of Penn State University....
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TED Education: What could Joshua Bell do?
This post is a follow up to the TED-Education post yesterday: What Aristotle and Joshua Bell teach us about Persuasion. If you haven’t already watched the lesson, you’ll need to as background to the...
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3 Leadership Lessons from Carlos Ghosn
In the last issue of IESE Insight magazine, Carlos Ghosn offered three key lessons he has learned during his career. Carlos Ghosn at IESE First, he said, “Every problem has a solution,” but business...
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Leaders Go First. The First Steps on Learning Leadership.
Leadership: You Have to Go First. I love this little Dilbert storyline from Scott Adams: Employee: “I find it rather demotivating that you never praise me for a job well done.” Boss: “You’ve never done...
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Knowingly Bad
You can’t begin to improve at something until you are “knowingly bad”. If you are not aware of the lack of something, you haven’t got “taste” yet. If you think you are the best blogger in the world,...
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Manifesto: Keep Wonder Alive, Join me and make the #idontknow Commitment
Click Image for Download page In the spirit of changing myself for the better (and becoming a better father to my daughter), I wrote a short manifesto. http://cono.rs/idontknow In the next 10 years...
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The 4 Arts of Self Sabotage
The equation for human performance is the following: Performance = Potential – Self-Sabotage Blowing myself up, Photo credit: Heberger Site That is it. You achieve not what your boss lets you, not what...
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Systematic Abandonment
We collect habits, items, people that served us in a given moment, but are not serving us now. Human beings come pretty well designed for Systematic Accumulation, adding more and more plans, projects,...
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Teaching with Creative Indifference (or Impartiality)
Creative Indifference My daughter checking the roses in my parent’s garden A good gardener creates the conditions for growth of a garden, but cannot force the flowers to grow in an exact way. The good...
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The #1 Obstacle in Teaching Leadership
The mission of the IESE Business School, where I teach about 1,000 EMBA, MBA and Senior Management participants each year, is to “develop leaders who aspire to have a deep, lasting and positive impact...
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Lessons from EO Leadership Academy 2016 – Washington DC
Overlooking the White House I was in Washington DC the last 6 days teaching on the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation Leadership Academy 2016. We had 28 leaders from all around the world – China, Nepal,...
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We are Blind to anything beyond our Imagination, A story of a lost tribe in...
This is a story about a lost tribe in Papua New Guinea. They were brought to the city of Singapore and shown skyscrapers, airports, factories, supermarkets, homes and life. When they were on their way...
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What makes a Great School? 100% Enthusiasm, 0% Cynicism… or lots of Music
I'd love you to leave a comment and tell me the answer to this question: Who is the most enthusiastic person that you know? Thanks, Conor Last night, I asked a retired inspector of schools: “What makes...
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This video is from up in the French Pyrenees. It is about learning to ski. It takes a few days of hard knocks to get to a level where you can even basically enjoy it. The skills that turn out to be...
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This video is from Bilbao in front of the Guggenheim Museum. I was in Bilbao for the launch of Vistage in the region. In my courses I often have participants who hate following standard processes....
View ArticleIteration is Everything
I was on the road for 8 hours over last 2 days, lots of podcasts. I listened to Tim Ferriss speaking to Jason Fried. Jason seems an interesting character – professes to have no goals as he learnt at a...
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