Beating the Fake News Problem – in your world Fake News – it’s printed so it’s true! The world is awash with poor or simply fake information and because we see it on website, or in a newspaper or social media many, if not all of us...
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Are You Hiring into Your Culture?
Are you hiring into your Culture? Hiring Talented People Research shows that organisations are focused on talent more now than ever before. Getting the right person for the job is paramount. However, in what is believed to be a reducing talent pool, it is therefore getting harder. Unlike...
Do You Know the Power of Storytelling?
Saving Mr Banks – the power of storytelling “Saving Mr Banks” is the charming tale of how Walt Disney persuaded PL Travers, the author of Mary Poppins to bring the magical nanny to life on the big screen. There is a moment about three-quarters of the way...
Do You Let Technology Rule Your Life?
Are we giving technology permission to disengage us and block communication, collaboration … growth? Everybody knows… Ask anyone in business, education or life in general and they’ll agree with you that the brain is incredibly powerful. Most will agree that we only use it about 10% of...
How we can all achieve Peak Performance
Thoughts by Graham Williams on ‘Peak’ – by Ericsson and Pool ‘Peak – how all of us can achieve extraordinary things’ by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool Peak performance has always fascinated me, not that I am a peak performer. However, having been fortunate to work alongside...
Is The Biggest, Unchecked Business Disease – Behavioural Waste™?
The biggest, unchecked Business Disease – Behavioural Waste™ Organisations believe in leadership development as there are $billions invested in leadership development every year, made on the assumption that “better leaders get better results”. Some, more focused (maybe informed) investors focus their leadership programmes on engagement, assuming better...
Where do Reality-Driven Leaders start?
Where do Reality-Driven Leaders start? We’re often asked this question and what may be surprising is that no matter the size of the organisation the answer is the same – start with reality. Why? Because we instinctively know that’s the right place, yet we all make assumptions...
Are you trying to prove Einstein wrong?
Have you noticed how the one or two line sayings from real thought leaders are always simple and yet have far deeper meanings once you start to think about them. So when Einstein said, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking....
Is Behavioural Waste the missing link to Lean Programmes Succeeding?
Why do Lean Programmes fail? Research suggests that over 70% of all lean programmes fail. If you’d like to see some research about what might be the why then this link is useful http://www.lean.org/Search/Documents/352.pdf Yet during my years in the oil&gas, construction and retail industries I’ve implemented many...
Do beliefs matter?
Do beliefs matter? What do you think? As if it were yesterday I can hear my mother saying Be careful what you believe, it might just happen! And sure enough it usually does – but is that surprising? Take the example of the recent UK referendum on...