My first question was, ‘Why are you asking for my help?’. My client responded “I don’t know if I am doing things in the best way, and I always like to make sure everything is done in the best possible way.” I followed up by asking him, “Why did he think he wouldn’t be running … Read more
‘An IT issue’ was the rallying cry when over 12,000 cases of Covid were missed from the reports and not followed up by the track and trace teams… ’An IT issue’ my arse! It’s always a shame when leadership fail to hold themselves accountable. As at least one newspaper reported, the average GCSE student knows the … Read more
When Covid first struck, the impression of many was that the impact would last just a few months… This flew in the face of the experts who were already predicting longer term impact and the likelihood that a vaccine would take years to develop… The opinion moved on, with many thinking it would be over … Read more
‘Leadership is Lonely’ is the last of Colin Powell’s 18 Rules of Command (click here for link), that I first saw published whilst he was still serving in the US Army. Since then they have morphed into ’13 Rules of Leadership’ and have softened a little, probably to make them more palatable for civvy street. … Read more
Change – ‘We need to change’ is the rallying cry I hear so often when I move onto a new project. The list of opportunities to improve is endless, I always find, once I get into discussion with the stakeholders. A ‘brown paper’ exercise flushes out hundreds, if not thousands of improvement opportunities (UDO’s in … Read more
The book (Rocket Fuel – Wickman and Winters) uses many examples to make the point of how well the two skillsets work together, from Ford to Apple, through Disney to McDonalds. I would have never called myself an “Integrator” before, but the description of the role in the book, “someone who gets stuff done”, is … Read more
It was Benjamin Franklin that was credited with saying… ‘Out of adversity comes opportunity’ …and the Covid crisis, whilst it may not feel that way to many, is creating opportunities never previously available. I am delighted to say that this week, I took my first brief for my new business. It’s a local SME and … Read more
So, “what is the ‘new normal’?”, seems to be the question that everyone is asking. On February 12th, my world changed forever, and forecasts made on that day have increasingly become reality, so I thought it useful to share some of those to help you and your business prepare for the next stage of your … Read more