Pay attention to how you pay attention
The need to pay attention to how we pay attention is greater than ever it was. The prioritisation methods I teach gets some very valuable back up from Daniel Levitin, a prominent neuroscientist. […]
Don’t talk to me about Passion
Sometimes it seems to me that everyone on the planet is talking about how passionate they are. Most of them are passionate, of course. And they are right to be passionate. And that’s not the point. And I’m not talking about using ‘passionate’ in your LinkedIn profile or in CVs [...]
Leadership beyond words
Sometimes words are not needed. Leadership transcends words. It starts with Purpose and the golden thread runs all the way through to the small decisions on what priorities we defend and deliver day to day. call me to see how, together, we can weld purpose to priorities for you, your [...]
What Constitutes Success? In less than 100 words
These 95 words sum it up perfectly for me. What do you think? […]
Managing challenge and priorities with gentle mental toughness
You and I know that, along with the joys and successes we will experience in 2015, we will also face a few challenges. Well, a few days back I allowed myself to experience an almost paralyzing sense of overwhelm in the face of some very big challenges. I ground [...]
How to turn Strategic Seconds into strategic thinking, strategic priorities and strategic working
How often have you heard it said of a colleague ‘Mary is good but she needs to think more strategically’? Perhaps we even berate ourselves for not thinking about and managing our own priorities more strategically – especially when up against another deadline that we [...]
If you have time to waste, don’t waste the time of those that haven’t
My mum died towards the end of last year. Last Sunday my sisters and I rediscovered an important time management and leadership lesson from her. […]
What will you do differently to make the most of the recovery in the UK economy?
I was facilitating a stimulating event for the IoD yesterday with about 28 Owner Managers of SME businesses ranging from multi million pound turnover businesses to solo Consultancies in a broad range of markets. We were asking ourselves the question: ‘What will you do differently to make the most of the recovery [...]
Reevaluating purpose and priorities
Funerals. If you are lucky you won’t get through life without attending a few of them. […]
Making Time Management the Organization’s Priority
A lot of my work recently has been dedicated to helping ambitious companies define and develop approaches to raise ‘Time management’ from an individual employee’s personal preference to a strategic organisational process. You can imagine my delight, then, when I read this headline in my January McKinsey Quarterly feed [...]