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 [...]

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 – [...]

The work that I do is primarily based on helping business people focus on the right things to do. If you look at really successful leaders, there are only 2 things that they tend to focus on [...]

Everyone, you, me, everyone knows enough stuff to make themselves at least twice as effective.  By effective, I mean how much time we spend doing things that add value and doing so in an [...]

When I ask company leaders and HR managers what their biggest challenges are, more often than not managing stress appears high on their list.  It is undoubtedly a big worry for people because we [...]

A recent survey of 23,000 US employees found that only 37% had a clear understanding of their organisation’s objectives, 1 in 5 were enthusiastic about them, 1 in 5 understood their part in [...]