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Pain is being felt on the ground right now as the lagged effect of a year of the virus kicks in. In the UK alone redundancies hit a record 370,000 acc...
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...
One of my co-founders at Defy Expectations, Pat Chapman-Pincher, has written powerfully and succinctly in the last fortnight about bullying and disr
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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...
It’s great news that we have the first of the promising vaccines. The scientists at BioNTech-Pfizer that developed it, and all of the other vaccines t...
Yes, it’s a really cute photo but it can be a rough life being a puppy. Lockdown has led to lots of them being bred, sold at a high price and dumped ...
We are not sure exactly when psychology and psychotherapy started to dominate coaching, but they have been prevalent in mainstream approaches since co...
“Oh” said the head of HR “I can only spend that sort of money on the senior team.”
It’s an interesting fact that the more senior you are, the more yo...
It’s becoming very clear now that there is no “new normal” just around the corner. The situation we are in now is the future – messy, uncertain and t...
If you ask leaders what leaders do, they’ll talk about KPIs, profits, cost ratios, growth, product development and so on. They achieve improvement in ...
A client said to me recently that lockdown had made her feel much more part of the senior team. That sound like a very odd statement but there’s a le...
There’s a quote from Sir Francis Drake that rings very true for organisational life today “There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the cont...
