August 10, 2010 – 6:35 pm
I was away on holiday last week and played golf a few times. At one point, after having made the same swing mistake for the third time in the last 30 minutes, I swung my club in anger at my golf cart destroying the club.
It was a bit of an expensive lesson. I stopped [...]
There’s much in the news these days about how professional service firms must evolve. The necessary change will be difficult for many. Here are some hints that may help you if you are managing change.
1. If change is in the works plan to tell people well in advance what is planned. Then when it’s happening [...]
February 9, 2010 – 4:23 pm
Recalculating when change occurs is a kind of emothional intelligence.
When coaching executives we often have to guide them to sort out issues relating to their leadership role. Sometimes they need to be a Queen or King kind of Leader. Other times they need to be a Prince or Princess type of Manager. In short an executive can can really stifle momentum if they are [...]
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If you are on the upswing in your life your network is one of your most valuable assets. Future success will be a function of how robust your network is and what you do to make it productive. Your network will grow exponentially as long as you keep at it. Here’s the idea.
Say you’re [...]
There are interesting differences of opinion about evolution. This from a recent Gallup Poll;
No evolution; God created the human race as it is; 44%;
Evolution over millions of years guided by God 36%;
Evolution with no God involved 14%;
Almost half seem to challenge the concept [...]
February 19, 2009 – 8:49 pm
It is smart to recognize which bits of change are evolutionary and which are revolutionary and act accordingly.
Tune your change. Evolutionary change ought to be gradual and steady. Revolutionary change ought to be absolute. Either done wrong dilutes the value of the change and may be stressful.
Here are [...]
November 29, 2007 – 8:05 pm
A common time management principle is to do one thing well at a time. For example, every so often you’ll stop into someone’s office who only has one item open on their desk. They seem so organized and productive.
Well it’s quite possible that these people are living the rule ‘do only one [...]
