Leader Series

                Here’s a thought “One day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run you missed the starting gun” I first heard “Time” Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd in 1974 when I was 14 ….. Ticking away the…

Here’s a thought “Who are you to assume I am being patient!” Frequent business travel means I spend ages waiting around at airports. I’m OK with the planned wait before the scheduled time though I get hacked off when my flight is delayed and all they can tell me is ‘wait in lounge’. I’m not…

Here’s a thought “What is David Cameron doing on LinkedIn?” Stuart my social media guy has been harassing me to get up to speed on LinkedIn, trying to help me out of being my companies Sales Prevention Officer. So I am now in the middle of a two month programme of weekly tutorials to develop…

Here’s a thought “We need to talk about collaboration” In the film “We need to talk about Kevin” Tilda Swinton (brilliant actress) knowing something is not right with her little boy says to her husband ‘we need to talk about Kevin’. He replies ‘there is nothing wrong with him, he is just a normal little…

Here’s a thought People work best when they feel good about themselves About five years ago, aware of my deepening sense of gloom, I realised I was paying too much attention to the News. Apparently bad news sells so that is what we get 24/7. It’s on the television and the radio, its handed out…

Here’s a thought We are less than 1% open minded, what’s the cost and the opportunity? Most weeks when preparing to run a workshop I call some of the participants and ask them about their concerns for the event. Frequently they say – ‘got no concerns Dave I am coming to this with an open…

Here’s a thought Successful people have successful habits and unsuccessful people have unsuccessful habits. Over the last ten years of being a member of my health and fitness club I have noticed a pretty solid trend. Most of the year classes are about half full, I can get on a rowing machine without waiting and…

Here’s a thought “Is it me, am I the problem?” A few years ago in our workshops I asked participants whether they were a Type 1 leader (asks ‘what’s the problem and how are we going to fix it?’) or a Type 2 leader (asks ‘what’s working and how can we do more of it?’).…

Here’s a thought Police, press, bankers, politicians and energy companies – trust has been [The] news recently. Trust is central to my work – I help leaders build collaborative teams so they can effectively deliver their business results. Collaboration relies on trust so I study it to bring insights, different perspectives and challenge for my…

Here’s a thought! How would you go about getting the nation behind a £50bn project? How about even the very people who, you’d think, are going to benefit from it most? I did a gig in Manchester last week with 170 senior UK construction professionals, mainly from the North West (great series of networking events…