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How to have better meetings.
Part 2: Barriers and biases

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 By matthewcook

In Part 1 of this series on having better, we looked at how to think about meetings in terms of information problems. Having established what type of information problem we’re meeting to solve, Part Two now explores the building blocks of healthy group dynamics: psychological safety, power dynamics and bias

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How to have better meetings.
Part 1: Information problems

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 By matthewcook

A useful framework for thinking about meetings in terms of information problems.

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Why passion and resilience are more important than talent

April 29, 2021November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

“With everything perfect, we do not ask how it came to be. Instead, we rejoice in the present fact as though it came

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We’re taking ‘work-from-home’​ too literally: How stepping away from your desk results in better work

November 9, 2020November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

This weekend I went running and unlocked a solution to something I’d been grappling with last week.

It reminded me of two things I seemed to have forgotten whilst working from home.

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How to see the world like an artist and find beauty in the everyday

April 13, 2020November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

There is beauty all around us, if we learn to pay attention.

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Life lessons from 10 years of holding positive signs in public

March 10, 2019November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

A few reflections on a decade of cardboard and crayons.

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The contagious power of enthusiasm

September 30, 2018November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

You might not be the smartest person in the room and you might not be the most experienced. But you can always be the most enthusiastic.

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Hanlon’s Razor (and why people are nicer than you think)

April 16, 2017November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

How a simple aphorism can help us to reinterpret negative experiences and see the world with positivity and empathy.

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Kintsugi: Ageing, scars and imperfection

March 16, 2017November 25, 2021 By matthewcook

How applying the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi to life can help us to look positively on ageing, scars and imperfection.

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    Part 1: Information problems
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