Compelling Cause
“People are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a … Compelling Cause.” ~ Roger Fairhead What’s the difference you want to make? When I was growing up, my dream was to become an Engineer and much of my early career was spent managing engineering projects. A key lesson I learned in that role was that […]
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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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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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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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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
“Time may change me. But you can’t trace time.” ~ David Bowie Changes is a popular chart-topping song by David Bowie about an optimistic personal journey of stepping out on your own. He wrote it when he was going through a lot of personal change in his own life, as he and his wife were […]
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The Mystery of Flight, and Managing Change
Rather as a plane needs to have both the thrust to provide the forward motion, they also need the wings to generate the lift. In the same way a new idea needs the dream to produce drive, and it needs the excitement to make the dream fly …
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Mind the gap
In leadership terms, it’s important to know where you’re going to, to define where you want to end up. Sometimes this is really quite obvious. When Kennedy stated “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade” on September 12 1962 it was really quite obvious where there was, and where here was. There was the moon, and here was the earth.
If we don’t know where we are, we’ll not be able to chart the course to where we want to get to …
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Any dream will do
I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain,
To see for certain what I thought I knew.
Far, far away, someone was weeping
, But the world was sleeping, Any dream will do.
I first heard these lyrics when I was a teenager, and more recently when I started thinking about what they actually meant for me I found an interpretation that really resonated and helped me to understand why I love doing what I’m doing.
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Paperback Writer
Publishing a book on Amazon.
Oh, I could write a book about that! How many times have you heard someone say that when they’ve been through some difficult situation or experience, or when they want to have a gossip about something. Maybe you’ve said it yourself from time to time too.
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What’s your passion?
Apparently, nine out of ten adults have or want a pursuit that ignites their passionate side. That’s what the study conducted by Alpha Romeo found as part of their recent #FindYourPassion campaign.
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