As best-selling author and speaker Jon Gordon said in a recent blog about the value of developing positive relationships with the people you lead: any hard-charging leader can create success in the short term, but it would take a positive leader with a people and process-driven approach to build a successful organisation for the long [...]
A recent interviewer of pre-eminent US publisher and leadership specialist Michael Hyatt impressed him with 20 questions that aspiring leaders would do well to consider when discussing routes to the summit with existing power brokers. The questions impressed me to want to share them with you.
Who had had a tremendous impact on you as a [...]
Fears that Britain’s isolationist stance over the eurozone – compounded by the news that the UK economy is to face an even bigger downturn – are enough to send even the most grounded business owner into a tailspin.
In today’s torrid climate, when it’s impossible to forecast what’s round the corner, Rudyard Kipling’s pragmatic advice: “If [...]
It seems that a good proportion of CEOs have an elevated opinion of their own company’s level of creativity. According to a recent survey, when 1200 CEOs were asked to rank their company’s innovation over 52 per cent of them felt they were in the top ten per cent of their industry. Now, I’m not [...]
You can learn to be a better leader by looking at the satellite navigation system in your car.
Here is what it can teach:
1. The Sat Nav stays focused on the destination. Regardless of blocked roads, obstacles, traffic and diversions it continues to focus on finding a way of reaching the strategic goal – the destination. [...]
Executive coaching and management consultancy tips on how to increase sales:
1. Repackage your offering. Online law firm RocketLawyer developed a thriving business, selling downloads of legal forms. However when the credit crunch began to bite, sales began to drop.
The solution to increase sales? Instead of accepting their new reality, the lawyers changed it. The firm [...]
