The Missing Chapter

If you have read my book ‘Making a Difference’ you will know about my nine step approach to complex business problem solving....

The two really good things about a recession

The advantage of being the ‘old man of the firm’ is that you’ve seen it all before. The only disadvantage is that you can foo...

On line Groups – What is the point?

Last week I found myself with a couple of unexpected hours free and started to sign up to a few ‘LinkedIn’ groups. No doubt ...

Listen to good advice – but don’t follow it…

You might find this piece of advice a bit strange, especially coming from me, perhaps some explanation is called for?<br /><b...

“The end is nigh!”

When I was a teenager, working for my first summer holiday job in central London, there was an old man that used to walk up a...

Working one level lower than you should be?

I was talking with a colleague this week that was trying to comfort himself for not getting a position of interim General Man...

" And the winner is …. "

The message this week is not to underestimate your personnel – how well do you know their capabilities, I guess not half as m...

Is it possible to have a large company with a motivated workforce?

This question was posed to me during a recent reunion of a few employees of a small Belgian software company that was sold of...

Crisis what crisis? Everyone ’s become so boring…

Regular readers will know that my blogs are (more often than not) either inspired by a situation I encountered or by the peop...