The trouble with so many “leaders” is that they are so busy trying to lead others that they forget to lead themselves. The founder of VISA Dee Hock has stated that if you want to be a leader then you should invest at least 40% of your time in leading…
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…
Whatever you are doing right now is your priority. If you get up in the morning, check your blood pressure, go for a run or workout in the gym, return home and eat a healthy breakfast then your morning priority is health. If you get up and immediately view social…
Before reading this blog, you should make sure that you have read the one from yesterday Releasing Time To Be Effective in order to understand where we are going with this. Today we need to consider how to plan to effectively release time. You can’t create time, but you can release…
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…
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…