Senior Leadership & Top Teams – How do you measure up?
We have attached our business excellence model and hope it triggers some reflections or thoughts for you. If you aspire to work as a senior leader, this model will help to map out the challenge you face. If you are already working at this level, then our challenge is simple. Review your last couple of…
A Quotation For The Office Wall
Many quotations leave me cold. They sometimes seem over used especially by people who have nothing original to say. Then I found this one. I commend you to read it. Perhaps frame it. When your team is working on a new strategy or a change, have a quick reminder of these words. ‘Until one is…
Is there any sign of personality or life in your paperwork?
When you dissect our work a couple things stand out. It matters what we say, how we behave how we interact. But of equal importance are our handouts, materials, proposals, slides, brochures; the written material that surrounds our profession. I bet many of you are judged on the same or a similar basis. Whether you…
Challenging the same old routine
Few things are as simple as walking home from work. I get on the train from London. Get off the train at Fratton Station; walk down Fawcett Road and round a couple of corners to my house. Surely there is nothing wrong with this? It is a well practiced routine to the extent that I…
Ideas worth stealing from the USA
I have recently spent two weeks in the USA, much of the time in the company of Disney. I made a note of things I think the UK should copy/imitate/steal or learn from the US (Mindful that they could also learn a few things from us of course) 1) How great is it that a…