Digital indigestion
Nutrition, and the all you can eat buffet Leadership has never been more important than in times of uncertainty, and we’ve not experienced as much uncertainty as we’re facing now for several generations. At the same time, we have an enormous quantity of leadership advice coming our way from every direction, and it can seem […]
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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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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 (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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Making decisions in the dim light of incomplete information
When I came back to the bike sheds to cycle home at the end of the day, of course, it had gone. My bike had gone. Forever. And I didn’t get a replacement for several years; my parents decided it would teach me a valuable lesson, and it did!
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What did a conductor ever do for us?
What did a conductor ever do for us? Well, for me, exploring what a conductor does provides a really helpful model to see leadership . By the time a piece is ready to perform the hard work has already been done: seeing over the horizon, describing what’s on the horizon, and getting to the horizon.
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Intentional Neglect, and Productivity
Do you know where you’re going to?
Well, everyone ends up somewhere, but few people end up somewhere on purpose! Will you?
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Leadership is Alignment
Leadership is Intentional Alignment in the context of Results The properties of magnetic materials have been known about for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks and Romans knew that certain materials can attract other similar materials, notably lodestone which is an iron-rich material, and these materials have been used in compasses to help with navigation […]
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Choices
What happened to the superb owl? This month has seen several world ranking events televised. I suspect my preference isn’t the most popular around the world, or even in my household. However, it does have some lessons we can learn from. One of the biggest events in the USA was screened this week, and […]
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Time, and Life the Universe and Everything
We could consider each day to be like a fresh new cheque (or a new check in US currency) in a chequebook, and we can choose the value to write on that cheque. We can choose to have a lazy day and write a value of £10 for the day, or we can choose to have a really productive day and write £1,000 for the day.
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