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The simple (possibly painful) secret of success! 22 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
Every morning I cycle to work. I cycle because it’s the only way I get any exercise. If I don’t force it into my schedule, I’ll never get off the sofa and do it voluntarily. So every day I cycle to wo...
Have a worldview like a four year old 29 Jul 2013 | 04:35 pm
The other day I was listening to my kids playing in the yard and I noticed something. Something that fascinated and disturbed me at the same time. My three children were playing with small toy figure...
Stop comparing, you’ll never be that good! 25 Jul 2013 | 12:51 pm
Steven Furtick said at last year’s Global Leadership Summit that the trouble with comparison is that we compare our everyday existence with other people’s highlight reels. I’ll go one step further tha...
Always put purpose before profit! 8 Jul 2013 | 01:18 pm
What does your business do? Why does it exist? What’s the purpose of your business in one sentence? And before you answer, let me tell you what your purpose shouldn’t be. You’re organisation shoul...
Book Review: Likeable by Dave Kerpen 5 Jul 2013 | 04:58 pm
Amazon Synopsis: The secret to successful word-of-mouthmarketing on the social web is easy: BE LIKEABLE. A friend‘s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook,Twi...
Book Review: Inbound Marketing by David Meerman Scott 5 Jul 2013 | 04:50 pm
Amazon Synopsis: Stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in Traditional “outbound” marketing methods like cold–calling, email blasts, advertising, and direct mail are increasing...
What would you do if I gave you £86,000? 30 Jun 2013 | 03:02 pm
“Imagine… there is a bank that credits your account each morning with £86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during t...
Praise and Punishment = Culture! 11 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm
Whether you like it or not the way you behave as an organisational leader is going to colour your organisation. To be more specific, the behaviours that you praise and the behaviours that you punish w...
Innovation always looks like a bad idea! 3 Jun 2013 | 02:28 pm
Any specific innovative idea looks like a bad idea. By definition, it’s new, it’s untested and it looks different from the status quo. If it looked like a really good idea other people would be doing ...
The why is important! 31 May 2013 | 05:36 pm
Why are you the way you are? Have you ever considered the reason why you do what you do, behave how you behave, are who you are? If my behaviour (being polite, well spoken, restraining from certain ac...
