Moderation is gray. I don’t mean it is dull; I mean it is that shading in between the black and white of all or nothing. It is not a pin point or a thin line, but a broad spectrum that bridges the extremes. But does is this spectrum actually benefit us...

I was wandering around one of our manufacturing plants last week and got into an interesting discussion about how you cut a sheet of steel. No, I wouldn’t have thought that was interesting either, but I assure you it was. Why I hear you ask? Well,...

A number of years ago I was sat in a meeting and commented that I was useless at detail – it was one of my weaknesses. A colleague looked aghast “Weaknesses? How do you look yourself in the mirror ever morning thinking ‘I have weaknesses’? These are...

Following on from my last post where I looked at how you define productivity, this post will look at how I define ‘Personal Development’. Personal Development is a much wider concept than Productivity – in fact, I would say that striving to improve...

Half-a-dozen Monkeys is about Productivity and Personal Development. It is about how I am learning to grow in both these areas, and how you can learn from this. But one thing struck me the other day – surely all of this depends on how you define...