by Giles Broadbent | Nov 22, 2022 | Productivity
Procrastination isn’t laziness but instead something more closely associated with fear. Here, we go into detail about how to set your mind right. Before we start the exploration, I should set out from the beginning what procrastination is and what it isn’t –...
by Giles Broadbent | Jan 18, 2022 | Productivity
The old notion of “fake it till you make it” has received a bad rap of late – but here’s the twist: there’s scientific evidence to support the idea. We could go so far as to adjust the phrase so it reads “Fake it AND you make it”. But, briefly, back to that bad rap...
by Giles Broadbent | Apr 7, 2021 | Productivity
7 tips on blue-sky thinking we learnt from the way Google set up X, the Moonshot Factory that thinks the unthinkable, then goes ahead and does it Imagine having virtually limitless money. And a taste for revolution. A hunger for new ideas. And access to the best...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 23, 2021 | Productivity
Don’t worry. The boiling frog is alive and well. It thrives in meeting rooms and email chains of projects, big and small. Here’s how to stop it. To halt any potential tears, I should make clear the boiling frog hypothesis is dead and no more frogs are boiled to...
by Giles Broadbent | Mar 1, 2021 | Productivity
Now there’s a deadline to end of the lockdown this might be your last chance to get your creativity flowing. Here are 9 ideas to help you start. Charles Dickens would write from 9am to 2pm and then go for a walk. JK Rowling wrote mountains of notes about her...