I’ve come to the conclusion that organisations are really just a collection of teams, and successful organisations a collection of successful teams. It could be the ‘leadership team’ or a product teams, or a software team or an event team. At every level and in every way, the success is delivered by teams. It’s teams […] Read More…
I’ve never been on a Leadership course so I have just made it up as I went along. I never really aspired to be a ‘leader’, I wasn’t that interested in climbing the greasy pole, I just wanted to get things done and make stuff happen. I found out very quickly that you need to […] Read More…
Last Saturday, I went to an Improv class. I wanted to do something to take me outside my comfort zone, something I thought I would enjoy. It was, as I’d been told, great fun and there was lots of laughing (which is good for the body as well as for the soul). However, I was […] Read More…
There are more opinions on leadership than you can wave a stick at. So here’s another one. This is how I view leadership. As leader, I see my role is to create an environment in which the people I lead can thrive and perform to their very best; and then to make sure they are […] Read More…
“Allardyce has lost the dressing room” the headlines screamed. A 5-0 FA Cup exit followed by 6-0 drubbing in the League Cup semi-final, a particularly supine performance, led to speculation that the players had lost confidence in their manager and were no longer playing for him. If true, what happens next is inevitable. He has […] Read More…
No, I don’t mean that they are all eco-warriors, climate activists, tree-huggers or sandal-wearers (although I suspect many are of a greenish-hue, methodically sorting out the rubbish into the correct bins every week and buying their friends goats for Christmas). I am not referring to the general environment. I mean the specific environment that is […] Read More…
“Salespeople are the most important people in the business. Because without a sale, you don’t have any business” I read this old saying in a blog post the other day and it didn’t make any more sense than the hundreds of other times I’ve heard it (normally from salespeople). Sales is just one part of […] Read More…