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Just as the gladiators of ancient Rome had the coliseums, there are is perhaps no better environment to observe the finest business brains, tacticians, technical innovators and seat of the pants, gung-ho egos compete than the Formula 1 motor-sport championship. Returning after the winter break, the 2010 season begins on Sunday 14th March in Bahrain. Forward thinking read more of The world’s best university Cadbury employees are waking up this morning wondering what will happen to their jobs after their board of directors approved Kraft’s takeover proposal. It’s certain there will be job losses, how many and exactly where, is yet to be announced. Kraft will already be working on the who and where but as yet, all that remains a read more of Cadbury employees fear the ‘Kraft-knife’ Here in the UK we’ve been experiencing some unseasonably cold weather for a couple of weeks. A century ago, ships set sail from this Wharf, delivering their cargo to all points of the globe. As you can see the dock has frozen-over. This image is a metaphor for business conversations we’ve experienced over the last week. Things seem read more of Frozen Question: What is your reputation and what does it says about you? Brands spend considerable time and money developing a reputation; individuals do the same, the reality of course is how we feel about the brand or person and how that influences our decisions about them. My 8 o’clock meeting yesterday morning was with a person I have read more of Personal Reputation Much of our work in recent months has been helping business leaders make sense of the organisational fallout resulting from the so-called credit crunch. Typically, this means implementing change that results in laying staff off. On reflection, if the work you are tasked with, does not fit with your own values, no amount of coaching, counseling or read more of Moral compass, where does yours point? Leaving any job involves change. Employers sometimes conduct exit interviews in an attempt to discover why staff are leaving; the idea being, can the cause of departure be acted upon to prevent the loss of further talent? My recent attempts to contact the boss of a successful telecommunications business was less than impressive. My enquiry: “Hello, I’d like read more of Parting is such sweet sorrow Failure, I dislike the word intensely. The word failure delivers a sucker punch to hope, optimism and self-belief. As an alternative, I propose the word ‘lesson.’ Lesson conveys: an experience, one which we can evaluate, reflect and make our own minds up about. A natural outcome to any lesson is: we feel either positive or negative about the experience. If read more of Lessons not failures |
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