Thoughts on Leadership

The importance of your not making (all / most) decisions

Almost every company I see where the CEO is too busy suffers from at least one of 3 key criteria not being in place. Missing any of them means that…

You think you’ve survived …

A number of businesses I meet are dying slowly. Often without knowing it. And it’s just like the sunny spell we’re enjoying in the UK. I know. It’s the summer.…
“Who knew that coffee grinds sticking to Teflon would be a thing?” George May, MD of bio-bean

“Who knew that coffee grinds sticking to Teflon would be a thing?” George May, MD of bio-bean

How challenging has it been to get your company going? I think getting a new product to market has to be one of the more challenging businesses to get going.…

Self help and save the planet snakeoil

Watching the promises made at COP26 fritter away brings to mind the similarities between it and most company strategy awaydays and self-help retreats. One of the things that most of…
Marketing has fuelled ill in the world. It can do better.

Marketing has fuelled ill in the world. It can do better.

Marketing has been responsible for sooo many of the ills we’re suffering in today’s world. Overconsumption is the biggie. Encapsulated in the perceptive statement that “we buy things we don’t…

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