Making a difference in 2021
What’s the difference you want to make, and what makes you different? ~ Roger Fairhead We are about to embark on the second year of The Disruption, and this time of year gives many people time to pause and to think about what we’re going to look back on next Christmas as 2021 draws to […]
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New directions and fresh challenges
“Don’t just do something, stand there!” I’ve heard that message three times now. The first time was shortly after I started my own business almost 20 years ago. I wanted to focus on training and development, with the strap-line of “helping you learn”, and I had quite quickly secured three sources of income. Two […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (6)
”The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” ~ L P Hartley The year 2020 will go down as marking the most significant disruption to the modern world. 2019 was a different country, and they did things differently there. To thrive after this disruption requires a new way of thinking, a new […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (5)
“The Personal Productivity Planner is the planner I have always wanted.” So far in this mini-series, we have looked at the difference you want to make, and what makes you different. We then explored what you need to do to make your business Pandemic Tolerant and fit for the 21st Century and went on to […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (4)
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about how to make your business Pandemic Tolerant. What’s the difference you want to make, and what makes you different. In the previous blogs in this mini-series, we looked at identifying the difference you want to make and at what makes you different, in order […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (3)
Identifying the outcomes that will make the difference you want to make become a reality. In the last few years, my wife Sue, and I have started some remodelling of our house. Our kitchen furniture had been installed by the previous occupants of our house and they had made a lovely family environment that has […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (2)
What do you need to do to make your business Pandemic Tolerant and fit for the 21st Century? To understand what I mean by Pandemic Tolerant you may want to read my earlier blog here: How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (1) If your house burned down, would you re-build the same house? […]
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How to make your business Pandemic Tolerant (1)
What’s the difference you want to make, and what makes you different. I have some friends who live in Oklahoma, a place that’s known for the notion that “the wind comes sweeping down the plains” (a line taken from the musical “Oklahoma” by Rodgers and Hammerstein), and located in “Tornado Alley”. That’s because every spring […]
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Instincts and Integrity
When you know it in your “knower”. Some years ago, I was chatting with my friend Ernie, the leader of a local organisation, as people were gathering for an event, and as a couple passed us by, he enquired of me about them and their relationship, and then he said: “Don’t you just get the […]
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Respect and Alignment
Leadership Lessons from the Orchestra At a recent concert, I was sat in the middle of the first violin section of my local Symphony Orchestra playing pieces by Tchaikovsky, Walton and Dvorak. If you’ve ever been to watch an orchestra at a live event you’ll know there are some rather fun and somewhat antiquated elements of […]
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