Building Your Brand
As a business leader you invest a fair proportion of your time in your organisation’s brand – consciously and unconsciously. Your efforts are conscious when … Read more
organisation
How to Build Proficiency
To communicate effectively you’re going to need Information, which becomes Knowledge, which leads to Experience, which leads to Proficiency, which gives you Wisdom, which gives … Read more
The Power of Ownership
I have long championed employee ownership, which is a key element of my ‘Every Individual Matters’ Model. It has always seemed self-evident to me that … Read more
A Powerful New Social Contract
It’s true: you don’t know what you don’t know! So, logically, you cannot miss it. But that does not justify the old adage that “ignorance … Read more
Physics, Psychology and Business
Newton’s 3rd Law of Physics. You might not remember it is as that but you almost certainly know it or have heard of it: “For … Read more
Meeting The Need For Transforming Leadership
In his book, “Leadership” the Pulitzer Prize winning author, James MacGregor Burns defines leadership as, “The reciprocal process of mobilizing, by persons with certain motives … Read more
From Change Management to Change Mastery
Change is a fact of life. It is also a major factor in it. Increasingly so. Both the amount of change and the faster pace … Read more
Why leadership is imperative, and how you can unleash it in your organisation.
“Management is not leadership.” Those bald words are from John Kotter’s 2012 updated preface to his 1996 book “Leading Change.” He makes the statement to … Read more
Slip the Surly Bonds of Misguided Management Theory
You cannot help wondering what management lessons need to be learned from the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster. Undoubtedly the Inquiry will highlight many. Yet it … Read more
The Power of Ownership
“Mine!” Who hasn’t heard a young child say that? The concept of ownership is one of our most primitive senses. Indeed, I once read that … Read more