Aug 27, 2025
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...
Aug 20, 2025
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...
Aug 13, 2025
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,...
Aug 6, 2025
The most fatal words ever spoken by a leader are , “it will be faster if I do it myself”. No it won’t. If you want to scare yourself, sit down and write down all the tasks that you face both regular and irregular. That is one long, long list for leaders. Are you really going to be able to get through all of...