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A Three Step Process for New Year Resolutions

by Damian Hamill 12:35 - 30th December 2011
So, the New Year is almost upon us and many of you may be thinking of the changes you want to see happen in 2012 and framing those as New Year’s Resolutions. Let me give you a few pointers and I’ll be brief.

Moonpig, silver linings and creating opportunity from adversity!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 27th December 2011
Over the Festive Season some of you may have used the services of the personalised greeting card company, Moonpig. Let me do a little bit of name-dropping here and also show you how to extract opportunity from adversity.

Applying Systems Thinking to the Christmas Season, part 2

by Damian Hamill 13:00 - 23rd December 2011
I talked earlier about a number of categories of ‘rules’ that evolve to govern the self-organising systems that constitute families. Let’s look further at those categories.

Applying Systems Thinking to the Christmas Season

by Damian Hamill
Whilst I hope you personally have a very merry Christmas, it is axiomatic that, for many, Christmas is the exact opposite, with family gatherings creating anger, distress, conflict and upset. Indeed, many telephone counselling services report that for this very reason Christmas is consistently one of their busiest times...

Austin Powers, Meta-programs and NLP for Sales!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 22nd December 2011
In the Austin Powers movie, The Spy who Shagged Me, there is an amusing scene in which one of Dr Evil’s henchmen, Mustafa, is questioned by Powers and his CIA assistant Felicity Shagwell. Mustafa initially contemptuously refuses to answer the questions, but when asked the same question...

Insomnia, depression and other reasons for Festive Cheer!

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 21st December 2011
A quick blog this, following on from others I recently wrote on the subject of sleep and its effect on performance at work. A few days ago the CIPD, in association with the mental health charity MIND, published a report and a guide to managing mental health issues in...

J R Hartley, priming & Conflict Resolution skills

by Damian Hamill 14:00 - 20th December 2011
Today has been a bit of a frustrating day so I intend to reframe it as an interesting inspiration for a blog. If you want to find out how a visit to the GP and a frustrating traipse around multiple pharmacies led to creative inspiration, read on.

Making Space for Sleep

by Damian Hamill
The great inventor, Thomas Edison, said: “The person who sleeps eight or ten hours a night is never fully asleep and never fully awake - they have only different degrees of doze through the twenty-four hours." But let’s face it, Edison, inventor of the electric light-bulb, was in the daylight business. ...

Waiting for the Miracle

by Damian Hamill 10:30 - 19th December 2011
“There were lots of invitations; I know you sent me some. But I’ve been waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.” These words from Leonard Cohen’s magnificent song, The Miracle, sum up for me one of the most alarming aspects of the personal development movement of the last...

Sleep – the Dark (and absolutely critical) Third.

by Damian Hamill 11:26 - 16th December 2011
This morning’s Independent newspaper reports the return to work of Lloyd’s Chief Executive, Antonio Horta-Osorio, after a period of sick leave caused by insomnia. In this blog I would like to bang on again about the foolishness, nay the absolute insanity, of believing that we can compromise on sleep...

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Hello and welcome to “The Lightbulb”.

The Lightbulb is a blog that brings you the best in systems thinking, neuro linguistic programming and sports psychology and how the ideas and concepts from these areas can enhance performance for both individuals and organisations.

I’ll be bringing you ideas and concepts from a variety of disciplines … and including ideas from people such as Stafford Beer, Peter Senge, Humberto Maturana, Ross Ashby, Gregory Bateson, Norbert Wiener, Gordon Pask, Warren McCulloch, Buckminster Fuller, Heinz von Foerster, Milton  Erickson, Alfred Korzybski, Virginia Satir, Peter Drucker, Russell Ackoff, W. Edwards Deming and many, many more.

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