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Sustainability Matters
The issue of sustainability is the most pressing challenge of our times. If there is no sustainability then all the effort, all the resources we put in today is futile. Yet in businesses, time and time again, short-termism prevails. How we all risk extinction In his...
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Life or Death Decisions
What's behind decisiveness as a leadership quality? You’ve probably come across that saying : “If your religion requires that you hate someone then you need a new religion.” The world you experience and perpetuate is a reflection of your worldview. If you...
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What we sow in our own back garden
To mark the start of the New Year, we sent greetings to clients with a packet of bee-friendly wildflower seeds as a small token of our gratitude.Some weeks later I found one packet of seeds that hadn’t been sent and decided to plant these myself. It was a long wait...
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Stuck in the Middle
It’s June 2020. I mark the date as the world is in a particular state of flux: the prevalence of the Covid-19 virus is still determining what is safe and not safe to do and this judgement varies across the world.As I write today from the UK, I hear on the radio of...
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Trust and Psychological Safety in Today’s World
Your turn, you go ahead, no you, please you go…. via GIPHYConversational turn-taking is a dance and the rules around it are hard-wired As children we learn how to be polite, how to communicate respectfully, when to speak and stay silent. Our early cultural programming...
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5 Top Tips for Working From Home
We are living in unprecedented times. Millions of people across the world are in lockdown, experiencing the removal of our usual freedoms that we take for granted, in particular the ability to move about and spend time where and with whom we choose. For most of us,...
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International Woman’s Day
When MD for a company in a then male-dominated industry I was interviewed in the industry magazine, along with a handful of women, and we were asked the incisive question of what it was like to be a woman! Never having been anything else, I found this quite a...
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Pancakes and Prayers!
These last days we may have eaten pancakes (in the UK), doughnuts (Krapfen in Germany), or cream buns (fastelavnsbollar in Denmark, semlor in Sweden) and not given it much thought. These sweet treats are linked to the Christian calendar, this Wednesday being Ash...
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20/20 Connection
We asked HR professionals from a range of companies about team performance. Loud and clear, the answer to the question “What factors limit effective team performance?” was clarity, or more specifically the lack of it. Aspects involving clarity polled 35% with the...
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