https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztd6HYNaZg Leading a successful business can often feel like a battle. You are at war with the competition; you are fighting to provide the best service for ever-more demanding customers; your people – who are supposed to be your foot soldiers – seem to be dragging their feet instead of battling along side you. No wonder leaders feel wounded! In so many of the organisations I’ve been asked to work with, [...]

Are you an Apple person, or an Android person? Lotus or Ferrari? Boots or Superdrug? Sainsbury’s or Waitrose? Ask anybody questions like this and you’ll usually get an emphatic answer in one direction or another. For decades, marketing research has been seeking out the answer to ‘why people buy what they buy;‘ why they attach themselves to particular [...]

Do you need help? Let's be honest, most leaders do. They need help to create a flourishing business and to help people to be their very best. Humans are social animals - we need relationships and the ability to express ourselves to others. We need to share our experiences and, most of all, we need to ask for help. Yet, [...]

Why do you do what you do? Why, in fact, do you do anything? We spend the biggest proporition of our working lives thinking about what we do and how we do it (and, as a leader, also who will do it) and, as a result, we lose sight of Why we are doing it. Why? Is a massively powerful question - and, when you know [...]

What is the best style of leadership? What is the 'right way' to lead? We are all looking for the answer to that question. And there is only one style of leadership - your style. I am in the process of writing a new book at the moment, called The [...]