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Time to Read: 3 minutes and 24 second Post Brexit (3 of 3): Profit – because… Money is the most authentic thing of all, it is where an organisation gets real. Organisations can’t confront financial reality if they don’t know what it is. Organisations tend to know the cost of everything and the value of…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 42 Seconds Your Stress Level – Your Choice 1. You are sitting at traffic lights waiting for them to turn green. On red and Amber the car to your right accelerates away and cuts across in front of you. Do you: A) Shout, swear or even accelerate after them – after all, they…… Continue Reading
Time to Read and View All: 7 Seconds As a leader do this one thing above all else Keep your word or don’t give it. One of the shortest NL Weekly’s ever, and a classic example of simple never being easy. With my love and best wishes David X Please share your word below… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Shorter than nine months Sitting on a plane, back from seeing my mum in Scotland I visit my mum as often as I can – she is 90, she is alive and she is well. Apart from the dementia, that is. Her doctor tells me it is getting steadily worse, and that we…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 21 Seconds Don’t inspire your people – do this instead Be an inspiration It is not your responsibility as a leader to ensure that all of your people are inspired – it is your responsibility as a leader to be an inspiration. To be the behaviour you want to see from others,…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 11 secs (+ extra time) The Philosophy of Garry Hill So Garry, manager of Woking FC, walks into the Boardroom before a recent home game, and he turns to me and Rosalind and tells us the following: “I’ve just had one of my players come to me and he said ‘Garry, I’m…… Continue Reading
CHOOSING to live a positive life isn’t easy – it is worth it, though. Whatever we do in our lifetimes takes commitment and a will to achieve success and not to accept failure. The rewards can be great – and they don’t have to be financial. Right from when we were children we have learned…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 1 Minute Business, and Business Leaders, are a Force For Good… they’d better be for all our sakes Why? Three reasons: Economic – Business is the only way the debt will ever be repaid. Society – We need both strong private and public sectors – each is dependent on the other. Without a…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Just under 2 Mins Don’t bring the whole truth in the room, just for the sake of it. Yes, truth, openness and elephants are critical to your success – as a team, in projects and as an organisation…as long as it is about the issues that really matter. This is the key –…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 60 Seconds If someone asks you a question… Here’s a radical idea… Answer it! Yes, I know that might be the most blindingly obvious suggestion you have ever read And, it is also among the most unusual! Listen to politicians, colleagues at work, members of your family – how rarely people answer the…… Continue Reading