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We use a leadership diagnostic at Defy Expectations that looks at the key elements of leadership.  It asks a question about the process for review at ...

Some say that leaders are born, not made.  Most of the evidence says that leadership is a learned skill.  Anyone can be a leader, but certain types of...

I have often thought that sailing was a great metaphor for life and business.  There you are bobbing along gently with a light breeze when apparently ...

As the business environment gets more and more difficult optimising productivity is increasingly important.  You cannot afford to waste any time on pr...

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...

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. ...

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...

Helen wrote an interesting piece in January about having G.R.I.T. OK, she was using it as an abbreviation for some qualities (Gratitude, Resilience, I...