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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”...

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...

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Many companies now are looking at how they move people into the next phase of work and the answer is not an easy one because there are so many situ...

Of all the things that I have ever had to do as a leader making people redundant is the worst.  It never gets any easier to do, you can blame external...

The ability to research used to be limited to the few, now it sits at the end of our fingers.  The virus has made researchers of us all.  Why does it ...