The alternative to life is death, not work. We don’t talk about leisure / life balance, family / life balance, sleep / life balance or anything else / life balance so why work / life balance? Work is something we spend or don’t spend part of our lives doing. It…
Everyone needs to be a leader in order to be effective. Even if you only have a team of one (you). If you don’t have time then you can’t lead, if you can’t lead you can’t be effective. All the time we hear or say, “I just don’t have the…
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…
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…
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…
In the modern environment one of the few things that is certain in business and in your personal life is uncertainty. It’s here to stay and so we need to learn how to effectively deal with uncertainty. First let us understand the difference between risk and uncertainty as they are…
How many times have you got to the end of the week completely shattered having worked really hard and then sat back and realised that you have achieved very little of what you set out to do? For many people this is the norm rather than the exception and so…
If you don’t respect your competitors you will never learn from them. So many organisations hate the fact that their competitors are based in low wage economies or low tax areas and spend their time complaining about “not competing on a level playing field”. Instead of hatred or envy, they…
Targets without an objective can never be effective. A target a something that, if achieved moves us toward our objective. If we do not know what the objective is then we cannot produce targets. The problem is that many organisations give out targets without making the objective clear and that’s…