We’ve worked with a huge number of managers in the North West / North Wales area of the UK and you won’t be surprised to hear that the number one reason that most managers are not [...]

With the UK election campaign getting underway, I was reading an article on David Cameron (we’ll all agree, like him or not, that he’s a fairly busy leader!). The two things that [...]

Since humans evolved, we’ve wanted to be kept safe and we look to leaders and our tribes (the groups / teams that we belong to) to provide that. In the business context, this means that one [...]

When we, as business leaders, sit down on our own or with our teams and plan what we are going to do, we nearly always make two significant mistakes. Firstly, we don’t acknowledge that of [...]

If you read the title of this out to a colleague, you have probably confused them since success is normally spelt with an ‘s’ first. However, this is one of simplest, yet most [...]

If you’re a leader and in the middle of complex negotiations, issues motivating your people or trying to solve cash issues, you may not have taken kindly to the title of this post!  Yet it [...]

The world’s most successful leaders, Jobs, Leahy, Branson, Obama, Calver, etc all have something in common…they all engineer time out. And, they all get (or got in the case of late [...]

Here’s a list of things that we, as leaders and managers, know are important, yet most of us don’t do enough of (see if this rings true for you): 1. Developing strategy – [...]

“People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you do and it’s totally true.” – the words of the late, great Steve Jobs. Time and again when I start working with [...]

E-mail…can’t live with it, can’t live without it.  Time and again when I work with people to make the best use of their time, e-mail habits prove difficult to break.  So here [...]