ETC Playbook


The Importance of Quality of Mind to Enable Leaders to Shift Mindset

A couple of months ago I was delighted to sit down (albeit at our respective computers) and have an excellent discussion with Martin Palethorpe from Unbounded. Martin has spent the last five or six years focussing on working with people to teach them about the power and capabilities of their

Flexible working and distributed businesses

I chaired a meeting yesterday where eight agency leaders discussed their approach to flexible working and distributed businesses. Few had developed a very evolved model and all were responding to a change they see around them, but in often different ways. Broadly, all were looking to understand what their peers

Great leaders are accessible

Leaders lead. Find your way to be available to anyone. Be visible and be accountable. With change comes new thinking and uncertainty. So, what feels like opportunity to you, might feel disquieting for your team. Great leaders find lots of ways to be available and accessible to everyone in their

The £100,000 pencil

I spent some of Bank Holiday Monday researching branded pencils (I know how to enjoy myself!!). Prices range from 6p to around one pound, with one outlier. AllBranded.co.uk (via paid search) are offering a branded pencil for £99,999. Not only that, there is a minimum order quantity of 1000. So

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