I have recently returned from a few days away from my desk with predictable results. The post pile and the inbox loomed and the temptation was to commence battle immediately! We so often see our inbox as the enemy (see ‘too much information‘). Either we surrender, leaving messages unanswered or…
Leadership
When is too much information actually too much? We get so much information yet, if what we often hear is to believed, we want even more. However ‘no-one told me’ and ‘the communication around here is terrible’ are not so much calls for m0re of the stuff but for better….
As I am just back from holiday, the title should not be a surprise. Holidays are often a time when we step back and reflect, a time to dream bigger dreams about what the future for our organisations might look like – to build sand castles of possibilities if you…
Would you buy from this man? No? OK, it’s a cliche not to trust a second-hand car salesman, but cliches apart, why wouldn’t you buy a car from him? Is it the way he looks or is it the world that he represents, Perhaps you have been taught never to trust men…
We all like stories. We read them to our children, watch them on TV soaps and are endlessly fascinated by other people’s, whether we read them in magazines or heard them discussed down our street. We all have our own story and so do the organisations we work for. These are…
What reallly irritates you when you get to work each morning? In every organisation this might be different, although, travelling around as I do, my experience is that yesterday’s (or in extreme cases, last month’s) coffee mugs festering in the sink seems to feature fairly highly in many people’s minds!…
I hope you have big dreams? Vision, targets, aims, hopes – call them what you will, I suspect we all have a dream or two inside us. The trouble is, most stay as dreams because we cannot imagine how we could ever go about turning the into reality. Well if the longest journey…