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 By Graham Wilson, on December 30th, 2011…to make a big difference to your work or to your senior executive job hunt? As some of you know, I’ve written a few times in the past about New Year’s Resolutions. For example: Keeping to your resolutions Resolutions, goals, happiness and engagement This year, my inbox seems to have been full of messages … / continued By Graham Wilson, on March 25th, 2011Book summary: The Personal Branding Phenomenon by Peter Montoya (2002) Back in 2003, this summary was sent to friends and colleagues on my personal email mailing list – as it was then! Recent conversations, led me to resurrect it, to tweak the English, and to post it as a blog item. I hope that … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 14th, 2010The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Robinson) A few weeks ago, I chose one of Tony Buzan’s books as my Business Book of the Week. On Friday night, I went to hear Buzan speaking. He is a polished presenter, nay an entertainer, and he tends to stick to his stuff. He wouldn’t … / continued By Graham Wilson, on October 16th, 2010That 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  Comments are closed  case studies, emotional & spiritual intelligence, executive / leadership behaviour, general, portfolio careers By Graham Wilson, on July 15th, 2010Following in his father’s footsteps, Charles joined what was once the family firm in the City roughly ten years ago. Ownership long-since passed to corporate hands, although there is still a portrait of his great-grandfather hanging in the corridor by the Boardroom. Few people even noticed his surname and those that did tended to … / continued By Graham Wilson, on July 14th, 2010We’ve been working together for a couple of years, and along the way seen Beverley’s organisation grow from 30 or so people to 60. You wouldn’t expect it to have been plain sailing, and certainly a fair bit of the growth has been down to good luck – being in the right place at … / 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 November 6th, 2009The model is actually quite straightforward – it needs to be, because the skilled user of it has to remember it and, in the course of a conversation, for instance, be ready to shift from one stage to another, when they pick up signals from their audience that they have got the message of … / continued By Graham Wilson, on November 6th, 2009You might have noticed that I do quite a lot of writing and public speaking. I actually enjoy both enormously, which helps. When I was 16, I had to sit a set of exams known then as ‘O’ levels. Typically we did 10 or so subjects, before specialising in the following year. English as … / continued 
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