Focus is a wonderful thing. It can ensure we work effectively and quickly. It is often described as “being in the zone” when the difficult becomes easy and the big jobs become rudimentary. But research…
Is Competent Management a Strategy?
Another title for this article my well be “Why do we undervalue competent management?” In fact that was the title of the recent Harvard article (Raffaella Sadun, Associate Professor at Harvard…
Why is Management Competency Such an Issue, And Where Do We Need To Get Better?
In my last Blog I put forward those findings from the “The World Management Survey” where competent management is in fact rare, and as such could be deemed to be a Strategy for a company to follow…
Everything You Need to Know About Procrastination – Read It Now, Or Maybe You Can Leave It Till Late
Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation, claims that 95% of us procrastinate. I would extend that by suggesting that the remaining 5% are lying! Procrastination is part of the human …
Some of Our Highly Engaged Staff are Planning to Leave Us!
We all know about employee engagement. It can best be described as that wonderful mix of Productivity and Loyalty. It is what we are always looking for in our staff. But we also know that New Zealand…
Changing Habits and Behaviour – How Do We Do It?
This is a 2 minute read. This is a short but crucial insight for all of you who are having difficulty focusing. Yes, we have talked a lot about this over the years, but this is priceless – from an article ….
More on Focus – Why it’s Hard and What to Do About it
This read is three minutes. Yes. Here we go again. That word. FOCUS!! First some research…
High Standards and Amazon, with an added extra on Listening
Reading time 4 minutes. Jeff Bezos is the Founder and CEO of Amazon. Every year he writes a report to all “Shareowners” as he calls them, which include every stakeholder in the business, including staff….
Some Principles to Live By and do Business By
I have always liked “principles.” They must satisfy my need to simplify the complex. The problem is I seem to have gathered together too many “lists” of them. The result? I fear they could possibly….
Thinking Deeply – What We Can Gain
This is a 3 minute read
Make sure you download the picture today – it is very topical, in a humorous way!
My thanks to Farnam Street for the inspiration for todays blog.