Surely, it’s time for a break? Three whole months of lockdown. Anyone with a phone or a computer has been caged at home, a sitting target. The workload’s been uneven….
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‘What could I do to make your job easier?’ It’s a simple enough question, so what stops you asking it? Are you afraid that the people who work for you…
Let’s give you the benefit of the doubt. When you’re there with your team, you see and hear them, you read the body language and you sense the mood. You…
Ian Wright was the guest on Desert Island Discs on 16 February. Wrighty was a hugely talented footballer (501 League appearances, 239 goals; 33 appearances and 9 goals for England)…
The deadlines tighten as we approach Christmas and the end of the year. For greater emphasis, your clients might talk of a ‘drop dead’ date, and you and your colleagues…
Poor Mrs May. ‘Brexit means Brexit’, ‘I’ve been absolutely clear’… She was striving to sound decisive and tough. This isn’t a comment on politics, it’s a comment on the style…
Here in the UK, we’re clinging to a hope that someone is going to spring onto the scene to provide us with the political leadership we think we deserve. While…
The Financial Times is always worth a look on a Monday. This week, the ‘Working Lives’ space was used for an article on ‘burnout’ and offered ‘Five tips to avoid…
Something in the news over the past few months has made me reflect a lot on my friend Emilio’s book. The Listening Leader was published by Pearson in 2017. Emilio Galli…
If you were to look for two books on decision-making, my pitch would be for Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’and Ray Dalio’s ‘Principles’.Kahneman won a Nobel Prize in Economic…