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 Graeme Codrington | Dec 11, 2015 | Archive
If you were ever part of even a mildly successful rock band in the 1960s and 70s, get back together again and get on the road as soon as possible: legions of ageing Baby Boomers are just waiting to buy tickets to your sell out concerts, reliving their youth and...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Dec 1, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal is a celebrity chef on a quest to reduce food waste and has embarked on an audacious journey to cajole grocery retailers into buying and selling what he calls “wonky vegetables.” Here is why Hugh has embarked on his quest. Roughly one third...
by Dean van Leeuwen | Dec 1, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstal is a celebrity chef on a quest to reduce food waste and has embarked on an audacious journey to cajole grocery retailers into buying and selling what he calls “wonky vegetables.” Here is why Hugh has embarked on his quest. Roughly one third...
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...
