Managers are leaving and your best team members are unlikely to want to step into their shoes. How are they feeling and what can you do? I’ve commented before on the current middle management shift, and an article I read recently in Fortune highlighted in detail the pressures and problem
This article is centred around something I discovered for myself through my own personal coaching – namely being too busy leading that I wasn’t making the time to learn. Here’s the thing. If you’re the founder of a business – or indeed a leader of any sort within a business
An idea that came to me a couple of weeks ago after a friend pointed out a potential problem with the name of one of our LinkedIn events, ‘Slack Slavery’. He noted the sensitivities around using the word, even when it was certainly referring to being at the mercy of
Oliver Burkeman in his book Four Thousand Weeks, nailing it again. “In his 2011 book ‘Time Warrior’, the coach Steve Chandler refers to this sort of decision-making as “choosing”, and contrasts it with “trying” to decide, or trying to figure things out. You could waste months trying to figure out
I recently left a little review for The Suffolk Latch Company, a business that makes cast iron door furniture (because great products and service really do deserve feedback). They replied a couple of days later to thank me and to ask – ever so politely – if I’d mind spreading
In March 2022, transformative mindset coach, Rena Loizou and I will be launching Clear Thinking™ – a series of experiential, hands-on workshops or programmes designed to dramatically improve clarity, resilience, connection, and creativity and ultimately your impact at work and in your personal life. Our first workshop, happening on March 11th, is entitled
Creating an AI programme and filling it with “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius” and using it to inform an album’s lyrics, song titles and artwork creation. It might sound slightly out there, but this is
Company culture can be a fuzzy and nebulous topic. Honestly, I’ve often struggled with it. It can be like juggling jelly, trying to understand what a company is really like. And yet we’re all striving to somehow create a great culture within our organisations. This belter of an exercise from
Just do it. I recommend client surveys to all my clients. Invariably, it’s hugely valuable, surfacing things that you knew but could do with corroborating, and throwing up interesting feedback that you might not have anticipated. It also shows your clients that you value their opinion and their custom, and
Utterly brilliant. Ogmio’s School of Zen Driving – if you haven’t already watched it, you must. Take a zen trip with Ogmio as he captures London through his dash cam. “The shadow… coming to a morgue near you.” “The double wave.” “Clutching a can of the cold hard truth.” Soon
