I respectfully fired most of my clients. It’s not their fault, it’s me – I’ve changed. I’ve changed my business model after 20 years. I’m transitioning to online and reaching into new territory. I’m still learning, gone down two wrong paths, lost a heap of time and money. But I’m […]
Do you ever get frustrated by some of the behaviours of your leaders? Here are some of the worst: Insisting on telling. The aim is to save time, though that doesn’t work, does it? Pretend listening. Punctuated by them interrupting the very explanation they might have asked of you. You can see them pretending to […]
There seems to be a never-ending list of leadership styles, models and theories, with new ones emerging frequently. The topic of ‘leadership books’ in Amazon throws up 176,009 titles! They all say pretty much the same thing – it’s about influencing people to behave and act together to achieve a vision. They unpack that statement […]
Warren Buffett, in his 2014 letter to shareholders said: “My successor will need one other particular strength: the ability to fight off the ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency. When these corporate cancers metastasize, even the strongest of companies can falter.” Arrogance, Bureaucracy and Complacency! They are the symptoms of the […]
