Bite Sized Business Tips

Leadership is light.Where are the role models? They're certainly not in charge of our political parties in the UK.The "leaders" of both main parties are on the wrong side of the largest environmental and humanitarian crises today.The opportunity to be brave, to paint a future for generations, to secure a ...

It's my birthday today. Always a time for reflection and looking ahead. But this year, as I watch thousands of my countryfolk being killed, and over a million of them being forcibly displaced from their homes while our governments here in the West support it either through inaction or encouragement, ...

Your being nice might be the thing that stops your business from shining."The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on that level will eventually converge to the crappiest person with the title. The rationale behind the law is that the other ...

GPS does 2 things for us. It helps us find the way to where we want to go. And it estimates roughly when we'll get there. But the issue is that as we are increasingly finding digital ways to get definitive answers, many are expecting to have those definitive answers ...

If you try something and it works out badly, would you learn to do it differently next time?Oh the tedium of generic questions.Because the answer certainly shouldn't be an automatic "yes".Or "no".Because the context is everything.I gave a CEO I was working with advice once not to sack a member ...

All? Maybe not entirely. But it is certainly the root of the evils which have impacted us most. And that's why your company should avoid this as a primary objective. But here's what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that profit is evil. In fact, within a business context, profit ...

If you're in a Senior Leadership Team, your CEO should welcome your contribution to the business at large. But you may find that contribution isn't always welcome. Here are the two key reasons I've seen this happen. 1) The CEO is a closed book and thinks they have all the ...

Summer is fantastic. But also often quite disruptive.Many of the CEOs I work with find that business gets a little bumpy over summer. Routines slip. Sales pipelines slip. People go on holiday (how dare they!) and however smooth (or not) the business was before, it's a little bumpier now.And invariably, ...

Too much stress for anyone at work is unsustainable, and shouldn't be normalised.But if there is regularly too much stress, it's not necessarily the employer's fault. Sometimes, hard to say, but you may just be in the wrong job.I've run and advised consultancies for most of my life. Consulting is ...

Because you need to be kind more than you need to be nice.Though both would be great!But that's the great disconnect. The disconnect between being kind and being nice.Kindness has to include talking about growth areas. The euphemistically called "constructive feedback".Would you be happy to go around having people avoid ...

Why do we treat stress as such an evil? Why is the reaction to a co-worker who is stressed always one of sympathy and advice how to get out of it? No one who's ever led anything of significance has ever got there without stress. None of us would walk ...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Now *that's* a condition! In most cases where I've spoken to leaders about it in reality it's something quite different. And very human. It's the human response to growth and new challenges. But because everyone and their dog is talking about it, and a hungry coaching industry ...