How to Set Goals That Motivate Throughout the Year
2021 Goal Setting Happy 2021 and I hope the year brings you lots of joy and success. Since it’s the beginning of the year, it’s,…
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One Guaranteed Way to Access Your Resilience
I don’t know about you but I’m kinda done with Covid19. It was grand at the beginning, we were all in it together. It was…
Top 5 Occupational Hazards of Being a Jedi
Being a Jedi looks so cool but what are the occupational hazards of being a Jedi and what can we learn from them?
Do Leaders Need Followers?
It’s an interesting time to be alive and have a fascination with Leadership. I don’t think I’d be going out on a limb here by…
How Loyalty May Be Hurting Your Career
Loyalty is a Goldilocks Personal Values. You want just enough. Too much or too little undermines performance. #Personal Values #Leadership #Loyalty
How Perfection May Be Hurting Your Career
Meet Kate*. Kate’s a manager in tech and manages a team of 5. Kate is very busy, all the time. In fact, she’s so busy…
Managing Insights Energies in a Crisis
During a crisis, there’s enough to be dealing with, to not have to worry about people’s personality preferences but they show up anyway. Tips on…
What Leadership Field are YOU playing on?
Are you playing a leadership game of soccer, baseball or cricket? Do you know what leadership game you’re playing? Does it matter? Find out how…
Cummings – Leader or Maverick?
As someone in the Leadership Development space, I’ve been fascinated watching the global decline in leadership standards over the last 4 years. While I can’t…
Boris’ Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Every time I’ve checked in the UK’s state-of-affairs over the last couple of weeks, it just seems like one endless capitulation after another. First, it…
Elvis Explains Values
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do” is a quote attributed to Elvis Presley and…
3 Leadership Lessons from Breaking Bad
What we can learn from Breaking Bad: 1. What business are you in? 2. What are your business’ limiting factors? 3. How do you keep…
3 Key Tools of the Management Trade
If you had to pick the top 3 management tools, what would they be?
Re-imaging Your Business Model in Covid19 World
Impact of Covid19 on Business It’s funny how something as tiny as a virus can stop us in our tracks, in a way “known disruption”…
Why 3.0 Companies Struggle with Innovation
We all know that the 4th revolution has upended the world and companies that dominated the 3.0 business world have been heavily impacted. Banking, newspapers…
One Simple Dynamic that Trips up Innovation
As part of preparing an innovation workshop with a group of engineers, I was a bit concerned that we’d never get past the analysis stage,…
3 Key Reasons Performance Management Paradigm Needs to Change
I’ve a confession to make – I’m a Performance Management Geek. There many not be too many Performance Management Geeks in the world, but I’m…
A Culture of Urgency
As a consultant, I’m very privileged to experience all sorts of organisational cultures and its always fascinating to see how different cultures arise in different…
3 Limiting Factors to Business Growth
The S-Curve Trajectory 3 Limiting Factors to business Growth Remember the petri-dish experience in biology? The one where you’re encouraged to introduce the nastiest bacteria…
One Habit that Gives Leaders the Edge
When you go to a training course, workshop or seminar event, what value do you get from it? If you’re like most leaders and senior…
#1 Reason Performance Management Fails
The number 1 assumption business makes about performance management undermines business performance.