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FASCINATING isn’t it? The fact that you are reading this and not doing something else? Shouldn’t you be doing something else instead? If so, then join the club! A survey suggests that we spend around one hour and 10 minutes procrastinating – every day. For those mathematicians among you that is about three years of…… Continue Reading
IN your association, group, club, don’t appoint a bigger committee than you need – more than 10 can become unwieldy.… Continue Reading
Time to Read – Nine Lives Our lovely cat Mozart (named after a composer – I can’t remember which one) – has taught Rosalind and me four things about leadership: 1. How to live in the moment – for cats, the time is always right now. 2. Who’s really in charge – when I play…… Continue Reading
HOW many organizations recruit on the basis of ‘hard skills’ – measurable, technical, learnable skills? Invariably employees leave, or are made redundant, or fired, on the grounds of so-called ‘softer’ skills – their personality or attitude. How we can we reverse this situation? Simple. Reverse it by ensuring that next time you recruit someone into…… Continue Reading
MOST of us have goals. Scoring them at random is not normally the best practice though. Try and find a natural progression in the order that you put them in. If you have a big challenge, try and break it up into smaller goals and chip away at the greater target. Any planning you do…… Continue Reading