by Mike Edwards | Mar 2, 2016 | Behaviour, Leadership, People
Lately, I’ve thought a lot about passion. I see passion differently than I did even a year ago. What makes one person passionate about something, and another seemingly similar person indifferent. In the working world, why can one passionate person be hired and...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 23, 2016 | Behaviour, Change, People
Sigh. I set a goal late last year to post once per week and until now I’ve kept that goal consistently. It’s been a couple weeks since I posted as I’ve been deeply lost in thought. To be honest I didn’t know what to write about even on this...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 9, 2016 | Behaviour, Leadership, People
Do you have the career you want? Are your relationships as strong as you’d like them? Are you happy with your life? We each define our own life, and therefore we have exactly what we want in life. Joy. Boredom. Struggles. Stress. Whatever it is you are feeling,...
by Mike Edwards | Feb 2, 2016 | Behaviour, Leadership, People
Talking. It’s what I do. I talk to lots of people every day, in my working and personal life. I’ve come to value the power of being in conversation with someone, and how much I can hear when I really listen to the other person. I am fearful though this art...
by Mike Edwards | Jan 12, 2016 | Agile, Change, Leadership, People, The Leadership Gift
Please let me start by giving you little insight into my career. I have never held a job for more than five years. I have never been fired but was ‘down-sized’ out of a company once which closed it’s doors shortly afterward. I know I’ve always...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 17, 2015 | Agile, People
Over the past year I have done more writing than I could have ever imagined. To be honest I failed English courses twice during high school. I really wasn’t a fan of the way in which our educational system seems to believe we need to learn the english language....