by Dean van Leeuwen | Jan 4, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership
Over the festive break I watched The Imitation Game; the story of Alan Turing, the inventor of the computer and the man who cracked the Enigma Code used by the Nazis during the Second World War, to encrypt messages. Cracking the enigma code was a quest of epic...
by Keith Coats | Jan 4, 2016 | Archive, Leadership
So you’re now a ‘Boss’ to someone. Congratulations! It promises to be an interesting and no doubt challenging journey and there are a few things that you should be aware of as you assume this new responsibility. Before you start, stop…and think. Stop and think about...
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 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...
