Business leaders' lives changed for good
I recorded the final modules for the first year of our Active Management Programme last week, and one of them was about making better decisions. One of the mistakes we make is that we can remain locked in the past, using the same old data or the same old processes. Even […]
It’s often hard to define clearly what it is we want in life. It sometimes helps to identify what we don’t want. Bronnie Ware worked for 20 years at a hospice where she nursed people in their last days. She wrote a book called “The Regrets of the Dying” and listed […]
To get to a better place, you have to do some unlearning – you have to let go of some of the things you’ve always known. You need to let go of the idea that working harder is going to make your business more successful, along with working harder means […]
I’m learning the solo from Hotel California. Everyone knows it. It’s genuinely iconic, and it’s bloody hard to play. There are two guitars, played by Joe Walsh and Don “Fingers” Feldon. Actually, there are 8 guitars on the track, but one is more than enough. Playing the solo almost right […]
Business confidence stays in the news. The latest GDP report shows the economy growing at its normal rate, though in my experience GDP figures are 3 months behind the SME economy. No one knows whether the loss in confidence will impact growth. Generally, expectations of slower growth are a self-fulfilling […]
I think there’s a sea change under way in management. For years the question has been “How can I make people more accountable?” I always thought this was the wrong question because it was about the person asking the question and how they could get others to do what they […]
I wrote the first part of Why the All Blacks are the best in the world just before the test against Australia at Eden Park, and the second part after their loss to South Africa in Wellington. Part 1 Because they are the best-trained. Forget Beauden Barrett, the key guy is Steve […]
I was having a conversation with a Breakthrough member and another guy at our Challenger workshop the other day. The member was talking about how valuable the Breakthrough programme has been in terms of business growth (oh alright, I prompted him). But then he spontaneously said, “Actually the most valuable […]
A couple of weeks ago I ran into a client from my time as a partner in a large business consulting firm. Rieny Marck and I worked together 20 years ago, and he was reminiscing about the Lumley Insurance journey. I did some work with them over the space of […]
My GP is a fascinating man. He knows all these obscure things and treatments. He always likes to see me because I have exotic symptoms that he regards as a test of his trivia trove (and they are trivial). One of his trivia titbits is that there is a part […]