@bernardhill

Full time Husband and Father. Lawyer. Consultant, Facilitator. Occasional Air Force Squadron Leader. Mistake Maker.

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Joined December 2007
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Don’t Think. — BernardHill

"Your brain's most important job is to control your body's energy needs. In short, your brain's most important job is not thinking". -Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett Step 1: Step Back. Allow your...

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Make Your Widget Big. — BernardHill

Some people have God. Churchill had Empire. Make your Widget Big.

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Context. — BernardHill

Always ask for context.

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Not Knowing. — BernardHill

A good boss, like a good person, notices. They notice because they are aware. They are aware because they know they don’t know. Not knowing makes us good bosses and good people.

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A Good Lawyer. — BernardHill

A good lawyer says: ‘Here is the boundary line defining what the community has decided what’s in and what’s out.’ ‘Here are the rules.’ Now … play!’

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It Only Takes One. — BernardHill

“It takes a year to build an aircraft. it takes two hundred. years to build a military tradition where you don’t leave anybody behind. You take the aircraft trade any day.” - Gen Frank McKenzie, a...

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Transformative. — BernardHill

There are few things as transformative as the gift of undeserved kindness. For the giver and the receiver.

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Love the Process. — BernardHill

But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. - Ayn Rand Good decision making is a deliberate process of inquiry that advances you towards where you want to be....

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The Confounder of Truth. — BernardHill

In the Second World War, allied aircraft approaching targets dropped thousands of small strips of aluminium code named ‘Window’ to confuse enemy radar as to their location. The unreasonable person...

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Being Right. — BernardHill

The best way to be right is to eliminate all sources of information that you may be wrong.

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Like Barnacles on the Titanic. — BernardHill

There are some organisations where people’s behaviour is so stuck, fixed, and unchangeable, that no amount of ‘off sites’, professional development, facilitation, motivation, incentive schemes, or...

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The Radical Act. — BernardHill

The radical act isn’t protest or tossing a Molotov cocktail or storming the steps of the palace. It’s understanding the seriousness and solemnity - Then cracking a good joke.

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Here and Where. — BernardHill

Here’s what I think. What do you think? Here’s where I am. Where are you?

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I Don’t Know. — BernardHill

“What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of...

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Sinners. — BernardHill

Virtuous organisations attract sinners who skulk about, relying on the misguided virtuous members not to dob them in.

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Gratitude. — BernardHill

‘Show gratitude’ is a self-help staple. Keep a Gratitude Journal, Reflect on Things to be Grateful For, Write Gratitude Notes. All are suggestions for someone looking to improve their lot. Being...

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Not Our Own. — BernardHill

We are here to facilitate someone else’s outcome, not our own.

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Virtue. — BernardHill

It is when one’s true character aligns with Virtue that greatness appears with ease. Only then can we do good while being ourselves.

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Change Is Easy. — BernardHill

Changing our life is as easy as our next decision.

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