Thoughts, News and Views

Is all growth good?

Is a lack of growth failure?I find it fascinating that when I've asked a CEO why their business exists, or why they founded it, ...
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Switch your problem perspective to what you can learn

Mother nature ripped a hole in your strategy. Government flip flops hacked it bigger. Then the wonderful variety of individual human responses, alongside an ...
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Good leadership is a paradox solved by context

"10 things all good leaders do". Nice clickbait, but almost always trite, misleading and written by someone who's not led their own way out ...
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Celebrate business founders – but for the right reason

"Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for ...
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Is your company suffering the great resignation or the great reshuffle?

The great reshuffle is a far more accurate description of what's happening than the great resignation (sadly, I didn't coin that!). And for those ...
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Male bosses need to read this to better understand their female team members

Gender-specific post for blokes who run companies. READ THIS BOOK! Many men, myself included, have often said that the system's not broke. But that's ...
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You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important

I get somewhat fed up seeing and hearing advice about how you can "have it all". Sure, at some level, usually a transactional one, ...
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Even as we live longer, we are thinking shorter

My father was a lawyer by profession, but a gardner in soul. He understood that it takes time and patient nurturing for a seed ...
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Great and Mediocre Teams and Ideas

"if you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant ...
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Give them a chance even though they might fail

I've often given young(ish!) people in my team positions of relatively large responsibility. Almost every time I've done it, they've succeeded. Almost. Every. Time ...
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Reasons your team won’t do what you told them to do

One of the most common frustrations I've heard from CEOs and managers more generally is "But I told them ...." Whether it's to do ...
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Freedom has Consequences

Freedom. So easily abused and misunderstood when we have it. So fundamental for our humanity that we have to fight for it when we ...
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