Mitigating the Cost of Living Crisis
Energy, food, fuel – the costs of all the basic essentials of life are increasing dramatically and rapidly. No wonder there is concern about inflation … Read more
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Searching For Better
There can be little doubt that the world is in crisis. The number of issues humanity is facing seems to increase daily. Soaring inflation and … Read more
PONG – What a stench!
Unless you’ve been out of the UK for the past week or so, you will undoubtedly be aware that P&O Ferries has been in the … Read more
Motivation: The Key to Building Talent
“Motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.” That line from Adam Grant’s book “Give and Take” really made me stop … Read more
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
Transformation or Reformation
What’s the difference anyway? That is the question I found myself asking. I was reading the Pulitzer Prize winning author, James MacGregor Burns’ book “Leadership” … Read more
How to ‘Bazooka VUCA’
VUCA is an acronym increasingly widely used to describe the operating climate you, like most organizations, face today: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This environment … 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
A Key to Optimising Your Human Capital
The perpetual balancing act between selfishness and selflessness, or self-interest and group-interest, is evolutionarily fundamental. So much so that it has been described as “The … Read more
Strategy and Your People: How to Sustain Success
Recently I came across an article in the July-August 2015 Harvard Business Review entitled, “People before Strategy.” (I am not sure the link will work, … Read more