Fun. So often lacking in business. Or forced. Or contrived. Or plain cringemaking. I laugh when I work. Lots. Sometimes others laugh with me. I suspect often at me. And my favourite feedback I get from people I work with? “It was fun.” That they enjoyed it. Do we get results? Absolutely. Funnily enough (funny […]
Values
Building the pipeline for girls to flourish in business
There’s a moral case for your company to give equal opportunities for your team regardless of their backgrounds, their gender or their sexual orientation. There’s also an business-performance one in terms of the improved decision-making that results from cognitive diversity. And although we are without a doubt making progress, it can feel slow. Recruiting women […]
The ripples you create
The ripples you create… I was on a train going into central London yesterday. A lady came on, Korean I think, and sat down opposite me and on the other side of the aisle. She pulled out a tangerine and peeled it. She then offered some to the man sitting opposite her – a thin […]
What if growth isn’t the strategy?
Could your strategy be not to double your business / kill the opposition / become the biggest / ….. ? I was given an interesting dilemma by a CEO who I once worked with. He’d done the work with his leadership team to bring control to their operations – the first layer of our Build […]
Mission turns our diversity from divisiveness to strength
Back in the 1950s, after US presidential elections when pollsters asked citizens who didn’t vote for the winning candidate what their reaction was, the responses tended to be along the lines of “He’s our president, I wish him well”. Today, this cannot be said of most citizens of either the US or the UK. So […]