I live not far from the BMW plant in Oxford.  As you drove past the entrance a couple of years ago the road was lined with trucks from all...

Leaders are always being urged to think about the future.  What can disrupt your business, what new technology/competitors/market is coming to...

For the last few months my morning run has become rather hazardous because our local swimming pool is putting in a ground-source heat pump that...

All through the pandemic I have been talking to people who are stressed and exhausted by the pressures of their job, their relationships, home...

I used to laugh at my mother, who all her adult life stockpiled candles and tinned food and needles and thread, “because you couldn’t...

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the six skills that leaders would need for the future.  One of these is risk management. ...

When things get bad at work, when there is no communication, when there is no let up in the pressure, you often hear the comment “we are just...

Yesterday Australia, which had one of the most draconian approaches to Covid, announced that its borders were open to anyone that had been...

In my last blog/post I talked about the six skills that we, at Defy Expectations believe leaders will need in the New Normal.  The first of...

The New Year is always a time for reflections and resolutions. 2022 gives us a great deal to reflect on, the last two years have been...

It’s clear now that the light at the end of the Covid tunnel is an on-coming train. The obvious, and perfectly valid concern is for the NHS,...

It’s interesting how we focus on moving ever upwards on the corporate ladder. We very often fail to stop to think whether this is something...