Jul 28, 2021
Innovation is not the monopoly of the R&D Department. Everyone of our staff has highly tuned antennae which pick up valuable commercial intelligence about consumer trends, supplier data and client feedback. Just because they are not wearing white lab coats, doesn’t mean their insights should be ignored. Yet that is...
Jul 21, 2021
Regardless of what level of leader we are, from neophyte to legend, there are four attributes which we need to master and keep remastering, because business never sleeps. There are leaders who are busy, busy working in their business and then there are those who make the time to work on their business. The biggest...
Jul 14, 2021
We are often leadership practitioners, rather than genteel philosophers, pontificating on leadership issues. Yet, we have probably developed a certain style of leadership nevertheless. We just haven’t focused on it as a methodology, because we are too busy doing it. We leave the books and articles to the academics,...
Jul 7, 2021
Covid is raging again, but we can see the end, be it this year or next year. It will finally stop being our total focus. So many lives, livelihoods and businesses have been destroyed by this pandemic. Ali Bab is a nice little French Restaurant near my office in Akasaka that has been closed since January. Will they be...