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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 extraordinary, a...

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, where exh...

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...

My first leadership moment was when I was promoted into my first management role. It was helpfully announced in the middle of a meeting about reorgani...

I coach several ambitious, driven, people and there are certain questions that come round again and again. One of them appears in many guises, but can...

Great thought from Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman – the creators of Extraordinary Leader – to my mind one of the best assessment tools that there is  “Tr...

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Re-organising again?  Here are 6 ways to make it a success

Technologies and markets are now moving so fast th...

There are several themes that run through my mentoring work but one of the most common is “How do I get an NED role?”.

Senior leaders have two reason...

I was talking the other day to a client who is nearing the successful end of a very large and complex project, one that had a high chance of failure. ...

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”...