“If serving is below you, then leadership is beyond you” – Bishop Dale Bronner I’m forever reiterating to leaders I work with about the benefits of servant leadership. As an article in Harvard business Review pointed out, ‘By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their people, leaders are making it…
Which questions were the most Googled in 2022? What trends were we interested in? Which TV series, actors and musicians were top of our search bar criteria? Here’s a summary of Google’s 2022 in search. The video is rousing too, a great two minute watch. Andy
I talk about accountability a lot, and enjoyed this image I saw on LinkedIn recently with a homework example applied against the ‘accountability ladder’. Being accountable is one of the most important qualities of leadership, and also of just being a good human being. People with an Accountable mindset take responsibility for their actions, unlike…
When teams are formed, they go through predictable stages of development. Recognising, understanding and responding to this development and performance ‘curve’ has the ability to transform good teams into great ones. A commonly used framework for these stages was developed in the mid 1960’s by Bruce W. Tuckman. His descriptions of Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing provide…
Writing is easy. Great writing is almost impossible. As Seth Godin said: “If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people with it. Technology begins by making old work easier, but then it requires that new work be better.” Above is a screen shot…
I spotted this post from Gellan Watt and felt like I wanted to take a view on it. Gellan’s viewpoint is that running an agency is about doing work that delivers an output or outcome, whereas running a business is deal making. In some ways I agree, particularly with the idea that we certainly don’t…
We all have the capacity for change at any moment. Yet New Year seems a good opportunity to ask if those small steps, your habits, are taking you in the direction you want to move to achieve your longer term goals. If the answer is “no” then consider what you could do about it. If…
Here are the top ten articles from the year – the ones which got most people talking, elicited the highest response, or won the most clicks.
As you know, I’m partial to sometimes sharing something ‘just because’ – because, well, why not? This vocal analysis of a Kate Bush classic from Elizabeth Zharoff, an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production is interesting because: a. it’s the first time she’s ever listened to…
It’s no secret that I love most of what David Hieatt and the team at The Do Lectures produce and put out into the world. One of their posts I saw recently on LinkedIn was too good not to share. Talking about ‘interesting’, the post says: “Interesting things happen when you do interesting things. It’s…