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The Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting

The Top Three Dysfunctions of a Meeting

Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Time Management

For the last 20 years or so I have been unwittingly researching corporate dysfunctionality through my work in Leadership Development around the world. Over that time, from conversations with thousands of mid career workers, I have noticed a pattern in what causes the...
How to make writing a business book a whole lot easier.

How to make writing a business book a whole lot easier.

Business Skills Training, Career coaching

I’ve just written a business book.  I can’t tell you how good it feels to type those words. It’s called “My Job Isn’t Working!”, and is essentially the top 10 tools I know people find helpful in dealing with the ever-increasing...
Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Why should anyone be managed by YOU?

Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Management Skills

There are plenty of highly competent managers on the planet, and you are no doubt one of them. You manage people because you’re good at it, and you got to where you are by showing the appropriate level of competence in the various disciplines of achieving results...
How not to build a dream team

How not to build a dream team

Business Skills Training, Leadership Skills Training, Teamwork

Google knows quite a bit about us.  It probably has as much data on our individual preferences and online behaviours as any other organisation on the planet.  It also spends much of its time and energy trying to understand itself. One of its more interesting recent...
"Keep buggering on!"  (Churchill): bad idea.

"Keep buggering on!" (Churchill): bad idea.

Business Skills Training, Change, Leadership Development

One of Churchill’s most famous maxims was a phrase he allegedly used at the start of each day, and at the end of phone conversations: “Keep buggering on!” – KBO. (His pool of female typists used to hear a politer version – KPO –...
The slippery path to who knows what?

The slippery path to who knows what?

Business Skills Training, Leadership Development, Leadership Skills Training

Last week I bumped into some stark evidence of something potentially very worrying.   If what I saw was, as I suspect, symptomatic of what is going on in the workplace, we really are heading down a dangerous path.  Sorry to be the harbinger of doom, but I feel a...
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