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 (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 (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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Difference Taker, or Difference Maker
Leaders with an abundance mentality and approach to their work focus on the possibilities rather than the problems, on what could be rather than what is, on what they want to do rather than on what’s convenient, on what they could achieve to make a difference.
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Leadership Lessons from the Motor industry.
Are we going to be a gold digger, a wheelbarrow salesman or a Mustang Maker. All three business models have merit, and all three are significantly different ways to approach this crisis.
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Between BC and AD
We’re living in The Disruption, and it’ll soon be time to emerge. In the last few days, we’ve had a family bereavement. Nothing to do with the COVID Pandemic, my mother-in-law was 94 and passed away very peacefully with her family by her side holding her hand. Doris was loved by many and an […]
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They did it My Way!
Employees and consumers alike are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a cause. People want to know that what they’re doing will make a difference, not just make a profit.
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Now please wash the soap!
No floating bowls, please! ~ A key to domestic harmony ~ One of my early lessons for ensuring domestic harmony, was that after each meal when I had finished the washing up I needed to make sure that the washing up bowl wasn’t left “floating” due to some of the food remains clogging the drain. […]
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Education, or Qualification
Can you help me pass grade 5 please? The day I started my business nearly 20 years ago, I had some really interesting opportunities come my way that I was able to enjoy. One of the first was from someone who wanted me to take their place for a few months. I was to teach […]
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Party Hats
“All generalisations are false.”
A couple of years ago we had the most amusing start to the traditional Christmas Day turkey dinner. At the appointed time we all sat down, as usual, proceeded to pour a glass of something cold and sparkling, undo our napkins, and then each of us took hold of a shiny tube and pulled one end or the other in pairs.
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