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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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Most of us see choice as a good thing and we really do have an abundance of choice in the world we live in.  However, if you are like the vast majority of business people, you’ll also have [...]

There are a couple of ways to empty your inbox.  The first is to ‘Select All’ and ‘Delete’…most people find this causes anxiety! The other way is to work to a very [...]

In all my experience of working with thousands business leaders, managers and business people (as well as my own personal experience), there is only ever ONE REASON why things don’t get [...]

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 [...]