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I feel like gulliver…with the Zoom people

By Simon Bird / June 16, 2020 /

I feel like Gulliver…… I’m spending lots of time looking at people who are between 5cm and 10cm tall – it depends how many of…

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What is the leadership challenge when the team you lead are all at home?

By Simon Bird / April 27, 2020 /

What is the leadership challenge when the team you lead are all at home? The Covid-19 climate is one in which leaders in different contexts…

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Barney, Mad Men and Behaviour Change

By Simon Bird / February 8, 2020 /

(Orignially Published on LinkedIn – February 4, 2020) How can I connect Barney, my 4-month-old cockapoo puppy – to Aesop’s Fables, Mad Men and approaches…

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The Tyranny of Busy

By Simon Bird / November 20, 2019 /

I’m going to keep this short because I know you’re busy. I spend most of my working time with very clever people. People who have…

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Eurovision, Brexit and F Scott Fitzgerald. Can we please disagree?

By Simon Bird / September 8, 2019 /

For most normal people, Eurovision is just a crazy night of TV in May. Others will have cottoned on to the fact that there are…

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Down with pink and fluffy! There’s nothing soft about development…

By Simon Bird / March 6, 2019 /

Where did ‘soft, pink and fluffy’ ever come from as a term in relation to people’s development?   You know – the kind of development that…

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Networking – why have we made it so difficult? Or the perils of warm wine

By Simon Bird / December 13, 2018 /

I meet lots of new people every week.  People I don’t know and who are often very different to me. What’s more, I need to…

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Could you do this more quickly?

By Simon Bird / April 28, 2018 /

‘We’re very busy – how about doing it in half a day? I’m not sure we can spare the time to do navel gazing.’ I…

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Cliff Jumping 101….or a step into the unknown

By Simon Bird / March 26, 2018 /

In the last week, in different contexts, I met a couple of compulsive cliff jumpers. Not people who actually jumped off cliffs – but who, when…

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What’s Everest Base Camp got to do with work…?

By Simon Bird / December 2, 2017 /

This is the excerpt for your very first post.

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