Who knows what GDP stands for? Gross Domestic Product. The number politicians point to when they want to prove things are going well. Up? We’re winning. Down? We’re in trouble. It’s the same with the stock market. Market up? Champagne. Market down? Panic. GDP measures the total monetary value of goods and services produced. It tells us how much...
Read MoreA frustration I hear over and over again from people in management and leadership positions is how their people are 'resistant to change'. I know it can seem that way, but often, that's not what's really going on. Peter Senge said that “People don’t mind change - they don’t like to be changed”. A short statement with a lot of wisdom. People...
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again.Spreadsheets are open. Fingers are crossed. People are hard at work forecasting next year’s revenue. Too often, I see a number plucked from the air. "Let’s try and hit $10 million this year!" Unfortunately, that $10 million can look very different depending on how you measure
Read MoreWell, here we are, almost half way through January already. That means that if you were one of the roughly 40% of people that make New Year Resolutions, there's a 1 in 4 chance that you have given up on your resolution already, and by the end of January, there's a 50% chance you will have given up. If you stick it out past the end of the month,...
Read MoreBack in December, I asked you to think about your big priorities for 2026 - the ones that matter, the ones that keep getting pushed down the list. Now here we are. First full week of the year. Clean calendar. Blank page. Green light. For a lot of CEOs we work with, the answer isn’t new ideas. It’s old ones - important initiatives that have been...
Read More'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the land,CEOs were regrouping, strategy in hand.They'd dodged rising tariffs and tech that moved fast,Now wondering which plans would actually last… It’s that time of year! The pace slows. The calendar clears. And somewhere between the last meeting and the first glass of eggnog, your mind drifts...
Read MoreWhen you watch people running in a race, you’ll often see them slow down just before they get to the finish line. Elite athletes train to overcome this natural tendency, but there have been many instances of people losing the race simply because they finished too early - or thought they had. We cringe because we could see that the line was right...
Read MoreWe like to think that our projects, habits, and teams are organised and orderly and move in ways that are under our control. We set off with a clear purpose, a defined goal, and a reasonable plan to get us there. And then … real life happens. People learn new things, contexts shift, and the tidy line of attack becomes more of a gentle curve....
Read MoreThere’s a pattern I've seen regularly in organisations; you may have seen it too. Something serious happens, perhaps a missed deadline, a customer complaint, or a system failure, and everyone dives into it with real urgency. Meetings are called. Charts appear. People engage. And we have one of those 'we can’t let this happen again'
Read MoreA situation that we have probably all experienced is when a problem lands on our desk and the immediate instinct is to fix it. Quickly. There’s a kind of felt need to act, to decide, to move. As someone once joked: “We’re paid to do, not to think” - and this is embedded in many or our workplace
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