Most of us reserve fresh starts for New Year’s Day. We wait for the calendar to flip, write the resolutions, hold them for two weeks, and then quietly let them slip until the same time next year. The whole ritual is built on a strange assumption, that something...
We three kings of Orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star. It’s one of the most familiar Christmas carols, written by John Henry Hopkins Jr. in the nineteenth century. Most of us have sung the...
Have you ever wondered why your office naturally drifts towards mess but never spontaneously tidies itself? Why a hot cup of coffee always cools down rather than spontaneously heating up? Why you can scramble an egg but never quite manage to unscramble it? Welcome to...
It’s the question almost everyone asks at some point. Sometimes it arrives in the small hours of a sleepless night. Sometimes after a bereavement, or a redundancy, or the quiet realisation that the life you’ve been building doesn’t quite fit any...
Most of us would agree, in principle, that the communities we live in should be more compassionate. We’d nod through any sermon or speech that said so. But how often do we ask the harder, more practical question: what would it actually take to configure a...
Some of the most useful leadership material I’ve ever read isn’t in a business book. It’s in the Old Testament. Three men in particular have shaped how I think about leading well: Daniel, David, and Joseph. Their stories are thousands of years old,...
