Whatever job we do, it can be hard to keep motivated. Just like on these chilly winter mornings, another hour in bed is so much more tempting than a run, swim or bike ride. Keeping yourself and your sales team…
I’ve been thinking about the KISS principle. KISS is the acronym for ‘Keep it simple stupid’ and is attributed to Kelly Johnson who was the lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works in the 1960s. KISS referred to the design…
There’s a lot of talk about leadership and how much it affects what we do and how we do it. We expect leaders to be supreme beings with all the answers and we love to blame them when it all…
To know them is to love them…well, perhaps not love, but certainly to know them is to understand how to beat them. This week, the news is full of hurricanes and storms and sometimes fending off your competition can feel…
All aspects of recruitment are fraught with anxiety. If you’re fishing for a new person, how can you ensure that you’ll make the right choice and not land an expensive whale you can’t throw back in the water? If you’re…
Twenty years ago, Google burst onto the scene and what I remember most about it, was thinking what a stupid name! No-one I knew thought it could possibly last six months, a year at the outside. A free advertising service…
Whenever you start looking into something new, you realise how little you know about it. Literally, you don’t know what you don’t know. When you start a new job, it’s one of the biggest challenges to your confidence. Knowledge is…
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression: ‘There’s no ‘I’ in team’ because it’s used a lot. Usually to describe how being in a team is the best and to be a team player you have to lose your ego and…
