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The Formula for Guaranteed Failure

Time to Read: Just a minute Time to Listen: If you can be bothered! The Formula for Guaranteed Failure  Decide what you don’t want, give ownership of your life to someone else, and then, and most importantly, do absolutely nothing. In your life, your failure never happens by accident, it always comes as a result…Continue Reading

Open Up For A Better View

KEEP an open mind. This helps us tackle painful or difficult issues in our lives. Don’t push them away or hide them under the surface. Try to detach yourself from them and then let them bubble up to the surface. See them clearly for what they are and burst the bubbles. How many can you…Continue Reading

Academia and Industry Hit The Mark

PROFESSOR of Marketing at the University of Ulster, Mark Durkin has always strived to better the lives and prospects of the graduates under his guidance. And spurred on by the words of Northern Ireland Secretary of State, the Right Honourable Theresa Villiers MP, in a recent statement to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the…Continue Reading

Wake Up And Smell The Difference

AT the Naked Leader it is not the thinking that excites, it is the doing. Which is why Duncan Bannatyne’s book Wake Up and Change Your Life is so appealing. In it, the Dragon’s Den star invites people to do just that which is therefore doing away with procrastinating, while explaining to people how they…Continue Reading

This one’s for you Garry and Steve

Time to Read: Enough to make the play-offs Time to Listen: 02:45 Time to Watch: 12:18 – Woking FC TV (4th goal on 10:16) This one’s for you Garry and Steve   Garry Hill and Steve Thomson – two leaders who have transformed Woking Football Club I have written before about the strength of their…Continue Reading

Thought For The Week

YOUR success will depend on your persistence and belief, and this will be demonstrated by how much you celebrate any and all rejection that happens to you on your way to achieving your dream. And the ultimate irony of success is that when you achieve what you know you will, it will be those people…Continue Reading

Invest In Culture

THOSE businesses which drive forward with a positive, compelling and visionary agenda will thrive in the future. And their spirit will soar. Are you brave enough to try cultural transformation? It requires openness, honesty and trust, and can only be developed by throwing out the traditional culture of blame, and investing time in building a…Continue Reading

Be A People Person

DURING the continued uncertainty in the economy it is important to think positively about your business and aim higher than just keeping your head above water. Individuals can make a difference and you need to be focused on the most vital aspect of your company if you want to come through prospering and in fighting…Continue Reading

Lost or Found

Time to Unite Mummy and Baby – Can you beat 3 minutes?  Time to Listen  – Lost and Found   The greater the maze of confusion in an organisation, the greater the need to bring elephants into the room. With love David X  Continue Reading

Be In The Game – Together

IN business you are nowhere without the team. In some cases that might be as an individual with an entourage of people to help out. Delegation is one key area of playing that team game well. Doing so will allow you to make maximum use of the resources available to you, for the benefit of…Continue Reading