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…
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…
Whether we like it or not the world is changing faster that at any time in human history and the rate of disruption looks set to increase. Disruption is inevitable and that’s why organised disruption is the way ahead. Too many individuals and far too many managers / leaders are…
Beware anyone who describes themselves as a perfectionist. Perfection is almost never achievable and often causes delays or is an excuse / reason not to start or finish a project. Perfection is not effective. Think carefully, how often do you need something to be perfect? Do you really need the…
Many of us suffer from enthusiasm. We start a project with great gusto and go about it in a really intense way but to be effective you must be consistent. Or maybe we have a mad tidying up session only to discover a week later that we are back to…