As a business leader, do you have a company vision and if so how would you describe it? If it is anything beyond being successful, making money, creating a future for all your employees, looking after your clients, creating a legacy; then it would be more than most! This article explores what a company vision really is, […]
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Personality Profiling We need to change the way we profile people. Throw personality profiling into Google and in no time you’ll be wading through pages and pages of how to’s, testimonials and a thousand books on the subject. The idea’s been with us for a while and a whole industry has grown up around the idea that we […]
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“Some people spend too long staring at screens and not enough time engaging with life.” – Paul McGee Social Media is addictive, there’s no question of that. It provides that instant hit of gratification, the quick fire dopamine kick we get from watching numbers get bigger. It’s not a new phenomenon, in so far as anything […]
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The Zen Art of Negotiation You would be forgiven for thinking the headline ‘Brexit and the Zen Art of Negotiation’ might be the full extent of the government’s actual strategy for negotiating with the E.U. So far, all we know is Brexit means Brexit and of course since Brexit isn’t actually a word, it might well […]
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Telling the future used to be the job of Mystics, Fortune Tellers and Astronomers, but these days like so many other trades they’ve all given way to computers. Computers have in the past proved themselves very reliable in the art of divination and everyone from the Met Office to the Treasury rely on their skills in […]
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Talking Groupthink There’s a particular danger lurking in many an organisation and its name is Groupthink. Groupthink, or ‘happy talk’ as it is known in some circles, is a phenomenon where teams develop an unhealthily positive outlook. The desire for harmony or conformity in the group becomes so overpowering it undermines an organisation’s ability to make rational, […]
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The Clarity Habit We talk a lot about the clarity habit in my business. We also go into some detail about it with our clients too, but why do we think ‘clarity’ is so important? Simply put clarity is essential to everything we do, where we’re going and most importantly how we get there. Having clarity throughout […]
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EmpathyA few words aimed at those finding themselves in need of empathy in the workplace: Imagine this scenario if you can. You’re called into a disciplinary meeting to consider the case of an employee who has been consistently late, lacks focus and is often absent. The employee has cited that this is because they have an […]
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Is your organisation suffering from ‘overconfident leadership’? No one said it was going to be easy. Leadership can be a cold and lonely place and it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been a leader, there are always ways to make being at the top easier. We learn from our experiences and therefore we are all guilty […]
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For the longest time we have looked to the West and the Far East for inspiration. From business models to design innovation the US, Europe, Japan and Korea have often lead the way into the future. Although recent developments in the global economy have spurned some forward thinkers to start looking at newer players in […]
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