Why teaching isn’t effective, but learning is. Almost anything I or you or anyone needs or wants to know is available in seconds using any one of three or four devices that are never far from my reach. Any technique or method that I learn today will likely change in…
Ask yourself now. What is it about what I do that is remarkable? If you can answer the question then that’s great but if you can’t why do you assume that anyone else will find the remarkable in what you do? In a world where too many are trying to…
One of the delights of what I do is that I get to speak to so many fascinating people who are involved in interesting businesses. Many of them have growth as an “objective” but growth for growth’s sake is not a good idea. Nobody produces a product or service that…
I used to be the worse person in the world at saying “no”. People would come to me with jobs they needed doing or projects in which I could get involved and I would grab them like a frightened toddler clutching their mothers’ hand in a crowded railway station. In…
We constantly hear from UK Government that we need to be more productive. The cry goes out we are less productive than such and such country. My response is “so what!!” You can either be innovative or productive but not both. Let’s look at why trying to be innovative and…
We have discussed the problems with trying to manage time on several occasions in the past You Can’t Manage Time But You Can Use It Better and so we are all too aware that everyone on the planet has the same 24 hours in a day. We all spend those 24…
The reason most people don’t do things is because they are afraid that they may fail. We live in an environment where “failure is not tolerated” but we see that those who succeed usually do so by failing first. If you don’t try you won’t fail but you won’t succeed…
We’ve all heard the definition of a consultant. Someone who turns up, borrows your watch, charges you a fortune to tell you the time and keeps the watch. Good consultants enable you to have the resources to buy a better watch, but they seem to be few and far between.…
My wife loves Wordle and plays every morning, often whilst I am writing this blog. Recently we had a discussion which made me think why Wordle shows how effective you or your organisation will be. The boss said to me there had been a “really great word”, “one that really…
Different research gives different figures for the cost of stress at work but no matter which one you take the cost in the UK runs into tens of billions of pounds and in the US over a hundred billion dollars. This makes the cost of the pandemic seem trivial. The…