Welcome to 1 Minute Power Reads™
Quick, Powerful Insights to Elevate Your Leadership
🔹 Inspired by Real Coaching Conversations
🔹 About Real Leadership Challenges
🔹 Offered for insight, not instruction
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WHY I WRITE THESE
🔹 Why 1 Minute?
Ever start reading something that sounds really interesting… then get bored and bail halfway through?
Me too. I have neither the time or the patience for fluff – and I bet you don’t either.
That’s why I started writing the kind of content I’d actually finish.
🔹 What are they?
1 Minute Power Reads™️ are fast, sharp insights drawn from real coaching conversations – about the challenges, decisions, and dynamics high performers face every day.
They land quickly, make you think, and give you something to act on – all in under a minute.
Because powerful ideas don’t need to test your patience.
🔹 Why I share them
Because I believe confident, fulfilled leaders create stronger teams, better decisions, and a more energised world.
I hope you enjoy them and they fuel your leadership goals, achievements and impact.
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Let me know what resonates – or suggest a topic you’d like to see covered.
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85 Stop Running On Default
Every product we buy, from toasters to Teslas, comes with an operating manual. 👀 But you didn’t. 👉🏼 You’re expected to figure it out; how to think, work, and lead, by trial and error.👉🏼 Usually by following someone else’s lead...
84 More To Give?
Ever feel like you're running at 80% - but not sure what would unlock the rest? 👍🏼 You’re performing.👍🏼 You’re progressing. ✨ But something tells you you’re capable of more.✨ Not more effort, you already work hard, but more...
83 Managing Up
Great leadership isn’t just about managing teams. 🔹 It’s about managing relationships in every direction; up, down and across.🔹 Because how you lead others, shapes your outcomes, energy, and impact. 🚫 Managing up gets harder...
82 Get Ahead
🏃♂️ You’re putting in the effort.Showing up. Getting it done. The real question is this: ⁉️ Is the treadmill you're on even going in the right direction?➡️ And, if so: Is it the fastest, smartest path to where you want to be? 🚫...
81 Think. Adapt. Improve. That’s Creative leadership.
🎨 Creativity isn’t just reserved for artists, musicians and performers. It’s how leaders think smarter. ✅ It’s solving a problem in a new way.✅ It’s asking a different question.✅ It’s making something, even something small,...
80 I’m Looking At You
👀 I’m looking at you - and I see it. ✨ That spark. That quiet brilliance.✨ The part of you that’s bursting to make its stamp on the world.✨ The part that’s holding something rare - even if you don’t always realise it. 💡 You’re...
79 Everyone Has The Capacity To Be Great
➡️ Not just to get through the day.➡️ Not just to be good enough.✅ But to thrive - confidently, clearly, and without constant struggle. 💡 Everyone has the capacity to be great. ✅ To feel valued and valuable.✅ To feel heard,...
78 You Rise In The Right Room
High performance isn’t just about what you do.➡️ It’s shaped by who you’re around. 🚀 The right people don’t just support you - they activate you.🚀 They challenge your ideas, celebrate your wins, and sharpen your edge. 💡 Great...
77 From Endurance To Evolution: Rethinking Resilience
→ Resilience is the ability to bounce back.→ To recover quickly. To stay standing through pressure, deadlines, and demands.→ And most high performers have that in spades. But.. 🚫 Enduring isn’t the same as evolving.🚫 When...
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