How Does The Enneagram Help With Self-Observation?
Earlier this week I posted a blog about self-observation. Click here if you would like to read that first. The blog briefly explains what self-observation is and why we would want to use this skill to improve our business productivity. If you are not sure what the...
Miss America: Throwing down the gauntlet to leaders
The storm of abuse over the selection of Nina Davuluri as Miss America shows just how short America is in being the society and country Martin Luther King dreamt of all those years ago. The virile stirred up by Miss Davuluri’s selection reveals a dark undercurrent of...
Creating a Living Legacy
Franklin D Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States of America wrote; “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little”. He died shortly before the end...
How you see the cow might just determine your future!
There are three company directors on a train going to Scotland. One of them heads-up marketing, one is in Human Resources and the other is the Financial Director. Out the window they see a field in which there is a brown cow standing parallel to the train. “Look”,...
The Enneagram, A Tool For Self- Observation
The French philosopher, Marcel Proust, said that the true journey of discovery does not consist of searching for new landscapes, but in having new eyes I loved that quote and agree with him. We have all heard that saying when you change the way you look at things,...
The ART versus the SCIENCE of business.
Earlier this year I was privileged to hear Seth Godin speak in London. The talk was part of his new book promotional tour The Icarus Deception. In the book and during the talk Seth asked the question "how high are you prepared to fly to deliver your art?" He argues...
Book review: The Exceptional Speaker
Public speaking is a vital skill for anyone anywhere to master. I do it professionally - and it's a privilege to do so. But I do realise how daunting and difficult public speaking can be, and I do what I can to help people develop their speaking ability. It was...
7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won’t Die – from Inc.com
A few months ago, I read the Inc.com blog post on "7 Terrible Management Fads That Just Won't Die". I have spent some time thinking about it, and wanting to engage with it. It's a provocative read, and challenges some management mindsets that seem entrenched in...
On Leadership: Difference matters
Recently Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech has celebrated its 50th anniversary. In the speech King found a way to further unlock America’s founding promise that, “All men are created equal” and have the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”....
Why Once-Off Training Is Not Sustainable
The hardest part about my job is that clients want me to perform miracles. Whilst I aim to please, sometimes it is just not possible to do in one day what they want. What most clients want is for me to take often complex situations, difficult dynamics and career-long...
Leadership: Yada, yada, yada…
Recently I had the misfortune to be trapped in a room in which an executive was enthusiastically ‘rallying the troops’. I am sure he thought that he was doing a good job and that those present were being suitably inspired with his every word. Fact is, I am pretty sure...
Signpost Video: Executive Education and meddling clients
Today's HR and L&D professionals are under immense pressure to deliver real return on investment to their businesses from executive education. But some of the ways they're trying to do this are counterproductive. We know of many companies who have engaged some of the...
Women @ Work
It is the first work day of September, which means it is officially the end of 'Woman's Month'. However, I hope this does not mean that questions around how we can best maximise the benefits that the women inside our businesses bring to the workplace have been put...
BrainBoosters making a difference to the next generation
Here at TomorrowToday, we're very proud of one of our ex-colleagues, Lynda Smith. Lynda is a serial entrepreneur who left TomorrowToday a number of years to start The Refirement Network, an organisation focused on providing services and support to Baby Boomers who...
Social Media and Recruitment – The connection economy shift
Finding a job has never been a simple process and finding the right person to join your company is like finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately the rise of social media is making it easier for companies and candidates to court each other. Those candidates that use their online presence to ‘beef up’ their […]
An analogy to explain big data: Turning hay into needles
I have mentioned Richard Stacy before on this blog. He's a great thinker on social media in business, and speaks a lot of sense where many "social media experts" just talk hype. Here's a very short piece from his blog, but I found it very helpful in explaining why...
7 Stats that change everything: What to be thinking about as a Leader.
Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three types of lies – lies, damn lies, and statistics”. Of course we know that statistics can be used to support multiple sides of an argument and as Mark Twain once observed, “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are...
On leadership: Your next 10 moves, think carefully!
What is your ‘next move’ as a leader? Well, of course that would depend exactly on what it is we are talking about, but here would be a variety of topics – and some suggestions as to your ‘next move’. On ‘talent’: Ask if your current strategy and HR plan is really...
Quality is defined by the promise your customers need you to make
How would you define quality in your industry? What is it that your company strives to perfect and on which that can be better than anyone else? And I wonder how much money, time and effort is spent on getting that quality right - I am sure it is significant? Wouldn't...
Retail and Technology
There is a unique relationship between retail and technology. Retail chains have long been adopting technology as a means to track customers and gather valuable data. Some retailers have also leant on technology to provide more interesting window displays and shopping experiences. There is however a new element to this relationship, consumers and technology. Consumers […]