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 […]
Values
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 […]
Honour
Honour. Seems like an old-fashioned word. “Doing the honourable thing” is mostly taken to mean that young men should accept their responsibility if they’ve made someone pregnant outside of a long-term relationship. Or a negatively-loaded word as used in “honour killing”. The irony and delusion of someone believing that murder actually brings honour. Really? Which […]
If your team needs challenge…
We’ve just had a wonderful time snowboarding and skiing in Sierra Nevada in the South of Spain. The range is nowhere near as big as the Alps, and warm weather meant that only about 30% of the slopes were open. My younger self would have written this off as a dull holiday, and would have […]
Flourish
Flourish. That’s my word for work in 2023. It’s always been there for me. It was the biggest satisfaction I got when I had a large team – seeing team members flourish. The stories that live with me most and which get me most emotional are those where I’ve seen people grow often beyond what […]