Everyone is a bit selfish with one eye always on their own personal objective – WIIFM – What’s In It For Me? It’s human nature, survival of the fittest. It doesn’t mean it’s always at someone else’s expense but it does explain why we are caught in moral dilemmas from time to time, feeling that being selfish is wrong but so right at the same time!   Is it selfish to be focused on What’s In…

Everyone is attached by the umbilical cord of digital technology and being remote doesn’t make a difference to our ability to work. But should it? Digital burnout, work life balance and time to yourself – how does that work for you? Business has changed so much over the past 20-30 years – remote working was frowned upon, the culture was one where ‘we need you here!’. I recall in my finance days having phone lines…

Years and years – that’s how long it takes to horde and squirrel away names, contact details and connections from all sorts of sources. The numbers keep growing and year on year we start to believe our data is worth something and very valuable – but is it? The information is collected from everywhere you go both physically and virtually, a random bundle of business cards here, a list of delegates there or an exported…

Abandoning ship is rarely the answer. However, asking yourself the question, ”which of my golden rules am I ignoring?” might make you feel guilty enough to consider it. Disciplines, habits and standard procedures are necessary to become successful – each of those practices is defined by you and the choices you make. At the end of the day, life is for living, so we should make time to live! Time to review what is and…

Looking out of the window on a Monday morning, the clouds are grey and miserable, in fact it’s still dark which means the summer is now gone. Frightening, you’ve never suffered from SAD syndrome before but you think that you might be now – and on top of that your partner is ……, your children are ……, and the business is …… I know this is ringing true for many people. it doesn’t have to…

The word has become much of a buzz phrase over the past few years – time to collaborate with others – collaboration is the answer to all our problems and so on. The key foundation of collaboration is the reality that we are not capable of doing everything ourselves, we have not enough time, skill or budget available to do it without help. This is equally important for a small business owner and leader or…

The house isn’t on fire, the bank account still has some money in it and that mole is bigger than it used to be but ….. Deal With It! What is the potential cost of procrastination and avoidance of taking action? In many cases it can by a life or death question! You could well be a lot like me in that you are guilty of procrastination and FAFFing about – putting all sorts of…

The four greatest weaknesses personally and professionally Physiological research into the field of business performance backs up our own investigations and knowledge highlighting four weaknesses that feed off each other and have the potential to develop into serious issues and challenges. Clearly not all have to be present at any one time, and for some the level of challenge raised by any one specific area might be irrelevant to them as an individual. However, when…

How often do you feel like you are not getting the whole truth, the real and complete story but rather you are just being given a smokescreen, some diet coke version of reality? Intuition and gut feel will always kick in and raise alarm bells and the challenge is to know what those bells are telling you.  It could be called congruence – what doesn’t add up, what doesn’t quite make sense? This is not…

Podcasting is one of those marketing tools that many people are doing, some well, some not so and some very erratically. Being a relatively technophobic kind of a guy the whole idea of creating a podcast for sharing with the world with the hope of creating positive noise and opportunities filled me with dread. So many questions, so many challenges, so many things that could go wrong and damage my personal brand or worse still, make…