Monthly Archives: October 2011

Darwin in 2011: Survival of the…..Average Jo(anne)?

Posted on October 20, 2011     Leave a Comment

Be the best you can be. Once upon a time, we were all encouraged to work hard, to excel, to maximise our natural talent (nature or nurture), race to win, go the extra mile.  The brightest students in school were put in the top class/set so they could maximise their potential.  Meritocracy was part of […]

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Celebrating Success

Posted on October 12, 2011     1 Comment

In a session with a business mentor last week, he posed an interesting question: What is Success? It got us all thinking. Success appears to be an increasingly unused term, and the celebration of it ever rarer. A by-product of the current macro-economic environment? It certainly shouldn’t be.  Success is no more difficult to attain in tougher […]

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