Leading

Here’s some thinking on how to differentiate your organisation and get to the top – it involves: setting direction, having a great “2iC”, letting go and building your team all underpinned by huge tacit knowledge.

This is about gaining perspective, using the big picture and regaining the power to mobilise effort. As a leader you can’t do it on your own stuck down at street level. It’s that constant ‘trying to’ that is killing business and businessmen. Here’s an alternative.

How can teams delivering critical projects establish a basis for success, whether at inception or after. Good luck if you are relying on an organogram or The Contract. Were talking about ‘people’ here, right!

Collaboration is the only way to create value and innovate and psychological safety is the oil that lubricates it. Tim Bowers and I explore fresh thinking on collaboration. A mini collaboration …..

Non-radical accountability is accepting the status quo, complaining about how busy we are, on task, maintaining the status quo and the drift to disaster. Confusion abounds. Radical accountability is liberating, exciting, radical …..

Two leading thinkers have got me thinking. Yuval Noah Harari suggests we teach kids the Four C’s to prepare them for the 2050 job market. And Jordan Peterson asks parents if they would prefer their kids to be safe or strong. I’m thinking what about the grown-ups here, now, in 2019?

Very good is boring Very good is boring nowadays and excellent will soon be boring. For instance: mid-summer my two sons were home along with my eldest’s girlfriend. The three of them are each well over six foot tall. They fancied a day trip so Sue and I suggested we all go to Northumberland. There…

Do everything ‘On Purpose’ and the second rule of my business is follow through. When a prospective customer asks me to work with them my instinctive first response is to question: what’s it for, what’s the point, what’s the purpose, why are you looking to do this work and what business result are you seeking…

Years ago, talking with a CEO he kept referring to brand and culture – curious I asked him to distinguish between the two. He said – “our brand is our reputation, how we are experienced in the world. Culture is how we do things round here. And how we do things round here directly affects…

The Brexit vote is a massive shock to me and from what I see and hear it’s a big shock to the ‘system’. No-one knows what is going to happen and there is huge uncertainty. Already I have spoken with executives who have had orders cancelled, downgraded their forecasts and are contemplating shedding staff. For…