I recently posted an article listing 30 things that people often bring to coaching with me. It is a handout that I use with students on a course that I help run in the Summer but is based on my… Continue reading
For a course that I help run each year, I have a list of themes that participants might want to include in coaching. It’s fairly random, and slightly focused on the participants’ needs in this context, but it might help… Continue reading
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Coaching and Mentoring Jonathan Passmore, David B Peterson, and Teresa Freire Wiley-Blackwell 2013 ISBN 978-1-119-99315-5 £117.36 The style and price (£117.36 today on Amazon) make it very unlikely that many practicing coaches are… Continue reading
Under the direction of Paul Moxey, in 2014 the ACCA and the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) completed an ambitious research project investigating perceptions of corporate culture and its links to dysfunctional behaviour in organisations. This series of… Continue reading
In case anyone wonders what I get up to at the weekends, the Oxford Launch last weekend got a write up in Forbes Magazine. If the link doesn’t work, then here’s a PDF: Oxford Launch Programme Can Help You Build… Continue reading
The diminishing lifespan of companies The average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 index of leading US companies has decreased by more than 50 years in the last century, from 67 years in the 1920s to just… Continue reading
This book came as a surprise at several levels. Firstly, I wasn’t expecting a “Teach Yourself” title. I’ve bought several TY books in the past and often been a little disappointed. They’ve been far more complex than I had wanted… Continue reading
It’s intriguing… One of the things I was told when I started teaching last year was that students have a very short attention span. It took me a while to accept this. How could I possibly be so boring that… Continue reading
This may seem blindingly obvious, but the usual starting point for an entrepreneurial venture is an idea. Let’s qualify that immediately. Some entrepreneurs (and do not dismiss them as they could be far better business people than you and I… Continue reading
There have always been entrepreneurs, and there always will be, though the term was first used in 1723. While we could get bogged down in semantics and detail, an entrepreneur (for our purposes) is someone who takes an idea and… Continue reading
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