Have you ever met someone famous? Not just randomly bumped into them and taken a selfie, but actually specifically met someone famous to have a decent conversation with them. Someone you’d seen many times on the screen and in the press. Someone you’d formed a particular opinion about in your mind from what you’d seen and read. Someone you perhaps.. Read more
Peter Ducker famously once said that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, but while he might have been the first to say it, he probably wasn’t the first to realise it, since Henry V managed to build an awesome organisational culture more than 500 years before the phrase was first coined. On 25th October 1415 (Saint Crispin’s Day) Henry’s army took.. Read more
How do you feel right now? How do you feel right this minute at your work, in your office, with your team? What are feeling? What are you thinking? Are you happy and excited about the work you’re doing? Are you glad it’s Friday and you can’t wait to get home to your friends and family for the weekend? You.. Read more
Blind carbon copy (BCC) on emails should never have been invented. I make it a principle never to use BCC in emails. BCC is the king of passive aggressive behaviour. In my opinion using BCC is duplicitous and underhand, and it shows a huge lack of integrity. Ask yourself, why are you letting someone in on the conversation without telling.. Read more