Leadership and the power of metaphor
As a general rule it’s important to avoid ‘mind reading’ or assuming you know what another person is thinking, writes Dave Rawlings. At first sight it might look like a variety of…
Soft Skills
Facing the future
Dave Rawlings helps get around that perennial problem……….When resolution is not enough! Are you looking forward to 2018 in hope and anticipation or in fear and trepidation? That might depend on whether…
Moving on up the evolutionary scale
When challenging ideas take root old assumptions wither, writes Dave Rawlings. When popular uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East in 2010 and populations set about inventing new societies, I found…
Life and politics: a war of words
Political parties create conflict, always highlighting the differences between them. There’s no political advantage in finding common ground, writes Dave Rawlings. An earlier article has looked at how each of us lives…
When worlds collide
Taking the beliefs of others on board, trying them on as a temporary experiment, is the key to understanding their view of the world, writes David Rawlings. The murderous attacks in Manchester…
You say you want a revolution
Populists have succeeded in making people feel that they belong to a group that feels what they feel, writes David Rawlings. The wave of populism that is said to be engulfing the…
Déjà vu – again
David Rawlings reflects on what happens when you try to make sense of something that you can’t understand. We’ve heard quite a bit of witness testimony lately. If there’s no available footage…
I like the way I map things out
When you think somebody is being irrational, cruel or stupid it’s useful to ask yourself a simple question, David Rawlings says. ‘What must the world look like from inside that person’s head for…
When the worm turns How we reinforce past choices
David Rawlings poses the question: if the reality of “control” turns out to be different from the promise will people change their minds? Left-wing or right-wing. Socialist or capitalist. Brexiter or Remainer….
One step at a time The DNA of success
Change management specialist Dave Rawlings poses the question. Have you lost the ability to try new ingredients and different methods? In his book The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins explains in…