Open your calendar. If you can’t see any gaps in your week and you have to block out time just to get a sandwich for lunch, then you’re probably living the meeting culture dream. Except that it’s not a dream, it’s a nightmare. When are you supposed to have a bathroom break, let alone get …
Up until now, when you mention Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the average person, they will probably recall the latest movie, TV series or novel where some time in the future, machines are integrating themselves into society with humans. However, AI is actually progressing faster than we think. Some of you may remember IBM’s AI machine …
These days the news is filled with everything from Facebook taking over the planet (now 1.59 billion users), to CEOs being most worried about cyber attacks, to rogue hackers disarming terrorist twitter accounts, and companies like Theranos taking blood testing to a whole new level. Our timelines are never-ending feeds of how technology and software …
In 1937, Napoleon Hill, in his book Think and Grow Rich, noted that positive visionary thinking helped the great American leaders get to where they wanted to go in life – Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D Rockefeller, the list goes on. And even today this still applies: Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Steve …
Being able to deliver a good presentation is an important element in a lot of people’s careers. Even roles that have very little ‘front of the room’ requirement, deliver important messages through the documents they create. Whilst most people want to see presenters who are charismatic and enthusiastic, often very little regard is given to …
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I’ve been thinking for years that businesses don’t collaborate effectively, and various analysis and studies done on this subject just seem to prove this hunch right. After reading the latest articles on collaboration from the Economist and Harvard Business Review, I felt compelled to write a response. Collaboration is a buzzword everyone in the office …
There are 540 minutes in a typical 9 hour working day. After those 540 minutes have expired, and despite the organized approach most of us take to list everything out, why is it that by the end of the day you have even more on your to-do list than you’ve crossed off? Have you ever …
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I’ve lost count of the number of times people complain to me that others don’t follow the process that they’re supposed to. Do any of these sound familiar? “Sorry I can’t, I’m too busy” “No one told me I was supposed to do that!” “Well I’ve found a much better way to do it!” A …
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“Love” – the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another – Merriam Webster, 2015 Do you ever have instances where the person you deliver to in your process is both a supplier and a customer? These types of relationships exist in our society more often than we realize. For example: · When …
In consulting, we love to talk about Change Management. What it is. What the benefits are. Why it’s so important. My newsfeed is always full of ideas on making change stick. Despite this, a lot of people still underestimate how much of an impact the wrong behavior can have on ‘being the change that they …
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