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We arrange to meet at 10 a.m. at his bike shop, De Ver Cycles. I ride across from Paddington, pleased to take in a short section of Cycleway 7, or ‘The Maurice Burton Way’, which has been informally n…
Mar 27 2024
When I was eleven years old, my mother gave me a pair of gold sandals. These were for ‘best’, and not at all suitable for school. In all my life so far I had worn socks and sensible lace-ups to school…
Nov 28 2023
I am lucky to be able to do what I love: developing leaders, teams and organisations. I have done it in my former roles as Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum and EBRD and Chief…
Nov 09 2023
A diary helps you to plan ahead, appropriately scheduling specific dates or times for tasks and actions. It helps you to structure time towards deadlines so that you can monitor interim goals more eas…
Jun 14 2023
Sadly, it took a global pandemic to accelerate the slowly evolving movement away from the traditional office-based, paper-pushing ways of working, which was prevalent pre-lockdown, to universally acce…
May 22 2023
Our four children and spouses happened to be with us for lunch the following Sunday, sitting around a glass table in the kitchen. We began to explain what we had been thinking about. At first there wa…
May 19 2023
It’s a basement flat in Bayswater, just beyond the casbah rowdiness of Queensway. Sting is in the small front yard when I arrive. He’s leaning against a whitewashed wall, arms folded across his chest,…
It is no secret that the Adlard Coles list includes some of the best practical boating guides ever published, so it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I pitched my original idea for The Boa…
Apr 25 2023
When Clare from Bloomsbury Publishing got in touch out of the blue to ask if I’d be interested in writing a book I said yes. That was in October 2020 and the proposition was, loosely, for a ‘maker’s g…
Apr 24 2023
There are many books which could have the title Uncommon Courage, telling the story of ordinary people, in wartime, stepping away from their usual existences to do extraordinary things.The focus of my…
A Maverick is someone who shows great courage and independence of thought, someone who may hold unorthodox views and choose to live outside of mainstream thinking. I think that it can also have a slig…
Staying the Distance is about leadership lessons, something you’re very familiar with as the Founder and Director of Sport and Beyond. Can you tell us a bit about your own leadership journey and caree…
Mar 13 2023
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