Today, Professor Mark Reed publishes his latest book, The Productive Researcher. It's a good book: he has interviewed many successful researchers, reflected on his own experience, and drawn together many different strands of thought to create a guide, or tool-kit for academic researchers, who are under increasing pressure to be more 'productive.' The first half of the book is focussed on fundamental principles, and the second on practical applications. I mention it here beca

You know that thing when you read a review or article and think: someone else has just written the book I've just written... I just had that, when I read this piece on the TED site by Emily Esfahani Smith. Not only did it sound remarkably similar to Shifting Stories, but it was also being covered on the TED site (and on its Amazon site has positive reviews from various other writers). So the green-eyed monster was waiting in the wings... However, as I read further, I realised

A number of people have expressed an interest in the psychology underlying the ManyStory Approach. I am not a psychologist, but do think that a working understanding of psychology is important for coaches and other change agents, and have read reasonably widely around the topic, as well as working with, and discussing ideas with, a number of friends who are psychologists. The first thing to say is that research (as quoted by the BACP on their website, and by De Haan in Relati