So on Wednesday night I popped along to an event where Alastair Campbell was talking about his new book, all about winning.
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Go on a first date? Have a telephone interview for the job of your dreams? Stand in front of thirty people and give a presentation? Come out as a member of the LGBT community to everybody? Do all these require confidence, and is the word applied across the board, actually the same throughout?
In the past week, one potential client asked me to take one of his team outside of his comfort zone and to make him more open. He wasn't particularly happy when I politely said no, I won't be doing that. I'll take him out of his comfort zone, sure, but he dictates how open he is. This cued a little bit of an argument as his base premise was that openness was a necessity in modern business.
This was written a year ago, but with international women's day just gone, it seems as relevant as ever....
So today was supposed to be a date, but my prospective beau had to work, so I spent the evening listening to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of Lean In (and a new version for graduates). At the heart of the evening was feminism and the strive for equality. Endings. It’s like it’s a dirty word. We’re always encouraged to look for the next thing and to run headlong into the future, especially if it’s exciting. But how often do any of us actually ‘do’ endings?
Now my old company loves an acronym, and one of the most common and enduring is TGIF. The desire to get out of work on a Friday and escape into two days of bliss is often taken as a given. Except that it isn’t two days of bliss is it?
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