Respectful reflections and little white lies Respect is one of those concepts where you often only realise someone is not being disrespectful when they make it very obvious, but it’s a lot harder to notice when people are showing you respect apart from some obvious gestures like opening a door for example. More often than…
How life shapes us It’s funny how life often shows us exactly what we are all about through our interactions with other people, some people tell you straight what they see and others merely hold up mirrors that when you choose to look and take notice give you interesting reflections on you. In my work…
The inner critic: are you managing yours? We all have an inner voice, an inner critic which regularly distributes self-talk that is extremely far removed from being helpful or constructive. In a way it is a trained voice, which can take the shape of a previous boss, family members or relationships past or present. Whether…
The political games of business Whether you are a solopreneur or a large corporation political games will appear no matter what you do, the mere fact of interacting with other people inside or outside of your organisation is the starting point of political seed capital. I naievely thought leaving the world of management consulting firms…
Spaghetti and Focus: What on earth do they have to do with each other? A lot of entrepreneurs in the professional service world are looking for their unique mission and purpose for their business and we deal with them when they face cross roads or changes of directions. In this economy it even is a…