by Keith Coats | Dec 14, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
Were I to colour the picture of my year by numbers it would look something like this: 131 flights (45 international and 86 domestic). That equates to 24 days (a ‘day’ being 24 hours) of my year was spent in a plane and a further 8 days sitting in airports somewhere....
by Keith Coats | Dec 1, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
“The business was still there when I got back” was the ah-ha revelation of John, a senior retail operations leader who dared go on holiday for two weeks without his cell phone. “In fact” he added, “my staff have grown as a result of taking decisions without me and...
by Keith Coats | Nov 27, 2015 | Archive, Change, Diversity, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
It has been said that we ‘don’t see the world as it is but rather we see the world as we are’. This is very true and it also happens to be the first step along the pathway towards emotional intelligence. It is the gateway to recognising that we each have lenses...
by Keith Coats | Nov 24, 2015 | Archive, Clients Feedback and Media, Leadership
In Sheryl Sandberg’s excellent book, Lean In – Women, Work, And The Will To Lead, she writes of an experiment done in 2003 by Columbia Business School professor, Frank Flynn and New York University professor Cameron Anderson. Their experiment was to do with workplace...
by Keith Coats | Nov 17, 2015 | Archive, Change, Leadership
VR – Virtual Reality will be the next generation’s Facebook. Just as 3-D printers are now starting to be serious disruptors, having moved from the ‘sci-fi’ edge, so too will that be the trajectory of VR. With the launch of the 2015-16 NBA season in America, the NBA...
