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Why does training mean nothing to you? – Julian Summerhayes

Let’s not get into a Laurel and Hardy argument: training is a bottom line issue, and you treat it like every other supplier: spend as little as possi…

Why do so few leaders blog? – Julian Summerhayes

Are they afraid… to influence a debate or illuminate a point of view? It’s not all the same, but there’s still a huge vacuum. It might be a phobia of…

Why do we work? – Julian Summerhayes

“Arghh, he’s on his soapbox again!” Sorry. But I’m at a stage in my life where I’m confused about so many things, not least why we give up our lives …

Why do law firms still block Facebook and Twitter? – Julian Summerhayes

My retort: Who the bloody hell knows! But the main reason is productivity. And what underpins that? Trust or rather the lack of it. Sad. Really sad. …

Why do companies exist? – Julian Summerhayes

I’ve a very simple view of why companies exist, and it’s not premised on delivering shareholder value or making pots of money for the owners. In a nu…

Why bother… – Julian Summerhayes

to be yourself? to speak your truth? to love more than others think is wise? to serve a higher purpose? to stop and focus on one thing beyond all els…

Why are you ignoring your single biggest asset ~ your PEOPLE? – Julian Summerhayes

Yes … yes … yes … I know you have heard it a gazillion and +1 times before, but the issue just won’t go away. At my core, as manager, leader or just …

Why are we so easily distracted? – Julian Summerhayes

There is an epidemic in our society – distractedness. Ask yourself a simple question. How long can you sustain doing one thing, and one thing alone, …

Why are we here? – Julian Summerhayes

You have to ask, with all that you see around you (presumably, wrought in our own image(s)), why we’re here? What useful purpose do we serve? I mean,…

Why are we here? – Julian Summerhayes

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters We didn’t choose to be born. We arr…

Why are we here? – Julian Summerhayes

Nature doesn’t need us. We need it. Or rather we need the bits we can exploit. Forget all the ‘be all you can be’ crap for just one minute, and ask y…

Why are we here? – Julian Summerhayes

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” ― …

Julian Summerhayes

Before you take a big fat swing in my direction, or proclaim how you or your firm are exemplars of social media, I would ask you to Google search the…

Who needs a website when you have Pinterest? – Julian Summerhayes

I was an early adopter of Pinterest. Right now I have 216 followers and I am following 104 people. At the start, I spent a bit of time creating and p…

Who knows? – Julian Summerhayes

“And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather o…

Who is Advising the Advisor? – Julian Summerhayes

Ideas that spread (if they are WOW, inspirational and memorable), win. The formula for success of professional practice is a clear demonstration of t…

Who cares? – Julian Summerhayes

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.” — Anne Sexton Who cares about the planet? Who cares about nature? Who cares about stopping wa…

Who are your internal systems designed to serve? – Julian Summerhayes

Systems come in all shapes and sizes. On a micro level, they might encompass: ID; File opening; Client/office transfer; Standard retainer letters; St…

Who are you? – Julian Summerhayes

â€œThe surest signs of spiritual progress are a lack of concern about spiritual progress and an absence of anxiety about liberation.â€� â€• Ramesh S….

Who are you? – Julian Summerhayes

“They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.” – Aldous Huxley We indulge in a long hours culture. It has become the n…

Who are you? – Julian Summerhayes

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cyc…

Where next for social media? – Julian Summerhayes

“Art is what we call…the thing an artist does. It’s not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters,…

True Self

â€œWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by tri…

Where next? – Julian Summerhayes

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.” ― Charles Bukowski I’ve renewed my practising Certificate with the SRA; I’ve secured a new ro…