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Monthly Archives: July 2013

Being Authentic

Time to Listen: 3 Minutes 2 Seconds Being Authentic I was asked last week “What if people spot me using Naked Leader tools and techniques that I read in your books or on twitter or in your blogs?” – The short answer is to embed them as part of what you do every day, with…Continue Reading

Balancing Act

IN business, such as in sport, you need hod carriers as well as artists, stability in harness with skill, while caution should be allied to courage and creativity. Remember, as a team, you need to have a range of attributes to make business work and you should consider the objectives of the team and what…Continue Reading

Don’t Allow Your Death To Be Fatal

YOU may think your business is secure – and that aspects like third party, fire and theft are all comprehensively covered! And yet, being fully prepared for the eventuality that could rock your firm to the foundations is often overlooked. More than half of medium-term businesses are said to unprepared for their worse-case scenario –…Continue Reading

Say ‘Well Done’ To Your Team

CONGRATULATIONS! The older readers among you will remember that word as a song title for Sir Cliff Richard in 1968. And in business terms it is something a leader should always offer when their team succeeds. The ‘well done’ may even be given in the form of a reward, to recognise a big success. It…Continue Reading

Thought For The Week

WHEN we know that we have enough, that we are enough, and that no-one and nothing can ever take those away from us, we have self-belief. And more, we know that our self-esteem is actually enhanced by having people around us who think differently, because we know that while we have enough, we can always…Continue Reading

There’s More Than One Best Way For Mike

ON Thursday 9 July, 2009, The Naked Office http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/the-naked-office—virgin-9pm-405335 premiered on British television. It featured an entrepreneurial company in Newcastle, onebestway, led by Mike Owen, and Naked Leader founder David Taylor, whose dual role was to strip away the problems to help the company grow while persuading people in the office, as a symbol of…Continue Reading