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Are You an Elite Leader?

By |2025-06-21T09:04:29+00:00June 21st, 2025|

Many leaders think they are elite - special at what they do, leaders of the pack.   However many of those same leaders, if we analysed their performance and their success record, would turn out to be reasonably well organised,  with systems and processes that are are good enough, and a productivity level that is acceptable.

Metrics Matter

By |2025-06-10T09:45:07+00:00June 14th, 2025|

There are many ways to improve productivity and performance - via technology, process change, culture change and so on.  But with each one, we need to measure the success (or otherwise) of our initiative to understand what works in our organisation. We need to identify which metrics are the most important for determining efficiency and the

Focus!

By |2025-06-01T11:43:42+00:00June 7th, 2025|

Interruptions are distractions.  Those people who constantly respond to texts, emails and  messaging systems might feel 'in the loop' but their productivity is probably woefully low.  Discipline is needed to wait until an appropriate time when the task in hand is finished or can be paused with no detriment. Those who cannot be disciplined should turn off their technology

Communication is Key

By |2025-05-23T11:10:14+00:00May 31st, 2025|

 Most people, on starting a new job, turn up with a positive attitude.  They may be nervous about the new situation but they want to do well, to succeed, and in return to be valued and fairly rewarded. Yet some of these employees will end up being 'let go' or demoted for poor performance. What goes

Hard Work Is Not Enough

By |2025-05-19T19:37:07+00:00May 24th, 2025|

We all know that hard work is needed to be truly successful. However, we also know that hard work alone is not enough. We need our hard work to be in the right direction. One common expression of this phenomenon is that managers are very good at doing things right, but leaders are good at

Volunteers Needed

By |2025-05-14T08:50:15+00:00May 17th, 2025|

It is getting increasingly common for firms to introduce opportunities for volunteering amongst their staff. This may be partly altruistic - attempting to do some good for a national charity or for the local community - but most of the firms that do it, do so for ‘selfish’ reasons.   They want to show some community and/or

Inspire Yourself

By |2025-05-09T22:40:33+00:00May 10th, 2025|

To be productive and to make our organisation productive, we have to inspire each person in the organisation to be engaged with the company and their role within it, to want to be the best they can be art their role, to be constructively critical of the way their tasks are carried out, making suggestions

Can Self-Reporting of Performance Be Helpful?

By |2025-05-02T11:12:11+00:00May 3rd, 2025|

Spoiler alert: Yes it can! Some forms of self-reporting, as part of employee assessment snd review, ask those employees to report on how well they have performed. One would assume that most employees would consider their performance to be good - or at least 'acceptable'. In fact, employees are generally quite honest -and quite perceptive,

Strategy and Commitment (and even Charisma) are Not Enough

By |2025-04-26T09:12:05+00:00April 26th, 2025|

We all know of inspirational leaders. We might not know them personally; we might not have worked with them or under them. But we have seen them on the TV, read about them in newspapers and online. Some of these inspirational leaders have emerged as truly successful businessmen - successful over a lengthy time period.

The Irony of AI Success

By |2025-04-15T10:21:35+00:00April 19th, 2025|

Being introduced to one of the new AI services (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) is like meeting a genie who offers you three wishes. What should you ask for? The power of AI seems so immense that it is difficult to think of the prompts to give your AI or the questions to ask it. So,

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