The Merchant’s Code: Ethics of Goodness

The Merchant’s Code: Ethics of Goodness

My upbringing gave me a very strong narrative about business: it’s corrupt and corrupts good people. It took me many years to unwind this story and reintegrate the archetype of the Merchant back into my worldview and life. It’s been a great lifeline for me, when I’m...
The Economics of Transformation

The Economics of Transformation

I’m in the “business of transformation”. If you’re reading this, I’ll assume you are too. The transformational professional seeks to create an experience for someone that allows them to change, not on the surface, not in their “efficiency”, but in the very structure...
How I Coach People

How I Coach People

It’s been three years now since I started calling myself a coach. I’ve worked with a whole range of people. It’s been challenging, it’s been enlightening, and it’s been deeply fulfilling. Sometimes, a client’s life has been truly transformed – issues that have...
What’s the Point of Your Work?

What’s the Point of Your Work?

What’s the point? I don’t mean, in the self-deprecating fashion that we can be prone to. The one where the internal voice whines “oh, what is the point?” I mean, what’s the point – the sharpened statement that conveys the essence of what you do? Do you know? Do...
The 3 strategies I use to market my art

The 3 strategies I use to market my art

I’m writing an ebook. I thought it was finished, then I discovered it wasn’t. It will be out later this year, and it’s called How to Market Your Art. So, as a little teaser, here’s a very practical description of some of the main ways I market my own art. First...
How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing

How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing

Sometimes when I sit down to write these more instructional posts – the one’s where I’m trying to teach you something that practically helps you – I assume a position. I hear myself with this haughty voice in an upper-class English accent.  “I, Lord Ewan, in my...