I’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… Continue reading
A 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… Continue reading
There’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,… Continue reading
As 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… Continue reading
Every year, around this time, I start to pull together my notes about goal setting and New Year’s Resolutions. I shall be doing the same again this year. To make it a little different I began to wonder if it… Continue reading
Given that I spent the first third of my career helping organisations in the pursuit of Excellence (a la Tom Peters), the first element of which was to be “obsessed with customers”, it is hardly surprising that I notice customer… Continue reading
The 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… Continue reading
You 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… Continue reading
It’s funny how coincidences happen. In the last few days, I’ve been in conversation with three different clusters of people all of whom were trying to do similar things – they either had to prepare a document for publication, deliver… Continue reading
Last week’s 10th Annual Conference of Corporate Governance (#wccg09), explored alternative, hopefully more effective, means of corporate governance. What emerged clearly from the presentations and the discussion was that our current approaches to governance miss the mark. They are targeted… Continue reading
