The world is a far more complex place than it was even just fifteen years ago. Today’s leaders need to manage many moving parts, contradictory information, connections which are often hard to see and senior managers who have conflicting interests. Many of us enjoy reading about history. I myself majored in modern and ancient history […]
Entries Tagged as 'Personal Development'
How Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire can Help Today’s Leaders Manage Complexity
October 19th, 2023 · No Comments · Leadership, Personal Development
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Getting to the Important Stuff
July 27th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
Knowing how to manage your time seems like a skill that only junior managers would need to learn how to master. And yet, again and again I work with senior clients who are spending too much time on activities that are not creating long term value. Important but not Urgent Covey’s work back in the […]
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What do you want
June 28th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
One of the hardest things in coaching, or indeed in consultancy, is getting people to the stuff that can really make a difference. So often a coachee, or even a senior management team, will beat around the bush with stories about their problems, about other people or about their competition. As a coach you can […]
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More Serious People
June 2nd, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
The recent TV series Succession has provided some valuable observations about life in organisations. Series director Mark Mylod always interpreted the story of the Roy family as a Greek Tragedy, where the tragic destiny of the main characters was already set from the very beginning of the series, due to their personal flaws. And so, […]
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Dialogue Improves Results
May 2nd, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
Conflict within organisations kill results.
The existence of unnecessary conflict between people in organisations is a real profit killer. The lack of true dialogue we see in our societies today plays out in our organisations, making collaboration between different areas of the business more difficult.
It’s time to get people having real conversations.
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The responsibility of Leading
August 4th, 2019 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
I am reading a biography of John Adams, a leading figure during the American war of Independence, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the second president of the United States. I must admit to being a fan of this period of American history, I find it quite extraordinary the quality of […]
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The humanity of Macs
October 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Personal Development
The day Steve Jobs died I sent a mail to my old business partner Tim O’Connor who had introduced me to the world of Macs way back in 1991 when we started our company. I had only been using a computer for one year while doing a Masters and had basically been using it as […]
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What are you really like at getting feedback?
October 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Personal Development
I recently received some feedback about certain aspects of and intervention I did for a client. My client basically told me that there was a part of the session that wasn’t achieving the reaction they were looking for and so they asked me to take a look at it and to see if I couldn’t […]
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