When Simon Sinek gives his students’ group work. He does a little experiment. Often when teachers organise groups, they put a selection of abilities in each group, to make the groups balanced and give each group similar chances of success and achievement. Sinek, does it differently….
10,000 years ago, humans made a transition from searching to cultivating. The first agricultural revolution saw nomadic tribes move from going out and finding whatever was available and following the food source, to settling in communities and cultivating the land to grow their own needs and care for their livestock. We stopped being hunters and started being growers. Then can.. Read more
It’s amazing what people throw out and as the old saying goes, “one man’s garbage is another man’s gold.”
Compliance is not the same as commitment! Compliant people wait to do what they’re told. Then they do precisely what (they think) they were told and no more. They need lots of managing and reams of procedures to get the ‘best’ (or maybe most) out of them. Committed people do what needs to be done. They don’t need telling, they.. Read more
If you want people to love your business, love them. Employees, clients, suppliers. Love them first and they will love you and your business. “People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”Theodore Roosevelt Everyone knows that we should love our customers, but what about everyone else? Love your team. Be there for them, listen.. Read more
I’ve been re-reading a book (Shackleton’s Way) that explores Sir Ernest Shackleton’s amazing and aptly named Endurance Expedition. Perhaps the greatest heroic failure in history. The Endurance expedition never made it’s goal. It barely even got started. It fell at the very first hurdle. The ship taking the expedition team to Antarctica got stuck in an ice floe, one day’s.. Read more