None of us can be certain what the ‘new normal’ will look like when it comes and this degree of uncertainty makes developing your strategy more challenging, but not impossible. If you are in the process of reviewing your strategy two articles are well worth a read. The first comes from BCG: ‘Covid 19: Win the
Sorry, but it’s time to revisit your strategy
These are challenging times for leaders. The current crisis is forcing us all to move into survival mode. It’s a natural human reaction – when faced with an immediate threat to our survival we are programmed to focus all of our mental and physical resources to address that threat. And, as one of my bosses
In these times of remote working, don’t be a remote leader
We are living in challenging times. As many of us, and our teams, move to working from home, remote working poses a unique challenge to us as leaders to keep everyone connected to each other and the business overall. We took that for granted when we were all working from the same office, going to
Try Being the Last to Speak (and listen, really listen)
As a leader do you feel that your team look to you for answers? Do you feel that the key requirement of a leader is to provide direction? Sometimes, with this mindset, you can find yourself dominating the conversation which may mean the views of your team aren’t being heard. It means, if there are ten
Keeping to Your New Year Goals (or any goal for that matter)
I had numerous discussions with family and friends over the holiday break about their New Year resolutions. January 15th is supposedly the most common day for ‘failing’ on your resolution – as we all know it’s easy to make resolution but much harder to keep to them. There’s probably a good reason for this –
The Power of Failing (every now and then)
Apparently, there is a perfect rate of failure – and it’s 12.5%. 1 in every 8 of your decisions, initiatives, projects should end in failure. I’m not sure how that exact figure was computed but it makes sense to me: if you never or very rarely fail, you may well develop a reputation as a