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musings on competition from cheerleaders to infinity
A bit of a mixed bag of threads this morning, but often in life, professional and personal you will find that many roads will lead you to the same place. Read more…
back to the floor over the pond
My passion for going back to the floor has been covered here before, but over the last month I have been able to experience a little of it during my travels across the pond. Read more…
musings on crisis management and the Ebola virus in the USA
I have been following the Ebola issue rather closely, or should I say it has been following me for here in the USA you can’t escape coverage of it. Read more…
if your behaviour is right you don’t need rules
In the days when I ran Facilities Management operations one of my concerns was that we should not move into jobsworth territory. This can sometimes be hard to avoid because FM is often placed in the role of enforcing corporate policy, and this is a grey area where right and wrong meet the rules. Read more…
meetings; what a waste of time
Is that how you feel about meetings? It certainly reflected my view for much of my management time and influenced the way that I ran meetings myself. And whilst much of the fault lies with the participants, the real blame for a bad meeting lies with the person chairing. Read more…
how to influence, or even join, the top team
In many of the business specialisms we talk about improving our influence in the boardroom; we want to have that presence amongst the movers and shakers and have a place at the top table, but how do we get there? Read more…
is every work day being different a good thing?
One thing that is likely to grab my interest on TV, and there isn’t a lot these days, is a fly on the wall style programme. Whilst I accept that these things are carefully edited so as to keep people watching I do enjoy looking behind the scenes. Read more…
change is all around, so do something useful with it
I often write here about change; it’s a constant that we embrace and resist in almost equal measure and whilst we can’t turn the clocks back we do effectively do that by often re-inventing something. Read more…
customers, processes and bureaucracy
A couple of things around customer experience have inspired this week’s musings, one of them personal and the other through something on TV. Read more…
a secret ingredient of leadership
Look up the characteristics of leadership and you will see the usual suspects; charisma, decision making, vision, caring for their followers, character, courage and so on, but there is another key ingredient that rarely gets a mention and that is the subject of this weeks musing. Read more…
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