That isn’t actually true. Anyone who knows me from days gone by, and certainly anyone who has experienced me on the old public speaking circuit will be aware that I used to carry around a mental list of heroes. With little prompting, I would share the details of these individuals lives and the profound … / continued
 
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 By Graham Wilson, on October 16th, 2010 Comments are closed  case studies, emotional & spiritual intelligence, executive / leadership behaviour, general, portfolio careers By Graham Wilson, on August 22nd, 2010In terms of social media, there seems to be a big disconnect between two groups of people that I work with: largely self-employed professionals and executives in larger organisations. The first group have, by-and-large, embraced social media whereas the second struggle to understand its value and how to use it to their benefit. By Graham Wilson, on August 17th, 2010I realise that this is a bit of a side-issue, but a few people express surprise that my role exists, and so I thought it might be amusing to point out that it is far more widespread than you might imagine. The problem, of course, is that people like myself work ‘behind the scenes’, … / continued By Graham Wilson, on August 13th, 2010The following is the text of my leadership and personal development agreement, which I ask all clients to review and sign when we begin working together. It isn’t meant to be prescriptive, but tries to create a clearer framework in which we work. 1. Focus. The direction of our work together has to be … / continued By Graham Wilson, on August 13th, 2010I’m not sure whether you are familiar with the book by Mitch Albom, “The five people you meet in Heaven“, but the essence is that we never quite know whose lives we have (perhaps quite coincidentally) touched and yet, in that moment, we had a significant impact on them. In the course of … / continued By Graham Wilson, on July 27th, 2010…To enable change in the Autumn. I agree that it’s a stunt – but it will have an impact on BP – though not in the way that some people might expect. In the world of direct action strategy it is sometimes said that ‘best practice’ is to target a single organisation and they’ve … / continued By Graham Wilson, on July 14th, 2010I’ve mentioned before that a Google search reveals that an “executive coach” has 54 seats and is owned by Wallace Arnold. So I tend to avoid that label. Instead I describe my work as that of a confidant to people whose circumstances give them substantial personal power. Apart from the title, there are a … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 19th, 2010A question posed on a forum recently pushed a few buttons in me… “Do you think a company name ending with ‘consulting’ is good for consulting business as well as social enterprise business?” As some of you know, for the last few years, I’ve been a guest speaker at the annual careers convention for … / continued By Graham Wilson, on May 10th, 2010There’s a popular perception that one of the trends of the ‘noughties’ was a growth in the proportion of ‘SoHo’ businesses. As Wikipedia defines it: “The modern concept of small office/home office, or SoHo, refers to the category of business, which involves from 1 to 10 workers. SOHO can also stand for small or … / continued By Graham Wilson, on April 13th, 2010As some of you may know, for the last three or four years, I have been managing the networks of former employees for a couple of large organisations. A corporate alumni network, provides the means for people who used to work together to keep in touch. Some do so purely for social reasons, others … / continued 
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