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Maybe it’s the effect of the pandemic and working from home but lately I’ve been talking to an increasing number of people who are looking for a new c...

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

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 get them in the ...

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 that we re...

One can argue that there never has been a good time to be a bad employer, but history would tell you something different.  In times where jobs outnumb...

How many of us have rummaged around in the back of the fridge, found some food slightly curled at the edges, looked at the “use by” date and thought “...

Every conversation about “work/life balance leaves me annoyed because it seems to totally miss the point.  What is this mysterious thing called “work”...

When we set up Defy Expectations we had a very clear vision of leadership.  Leadership was not something confined to the few, to those who have clawed...

Love is not weak, love is not a doormat, love does not compromise, but love is compassionate, listening and understanding. Love does not sit there wit...

Life in 2021 offers many opportunities to embrace change and lead in the manner that we want to; to become the leader we want to. But alongside those,...

When people talk about bullying, they tend to see it from the point of view of the individual.

Bullying for individuals is appalling.  It wrecks live...

Apparently one of Dominic Cummings favourite gestures on leaving a meeting was to pull the pin out of an imaginary grenade and throw it over his shoul...