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Latest publications
What’s the difference between leadership and management?
Leadership vs Management, who wins in a fight? The terms.. Read more
Four steps to changing the world
How to change the world: Step One. 1. Be Frustrated. .. Read more
Not all difficult conversations are the same.
Not all difficult conversation are the same. Do you know the difference?
One of the key things to understand about difficult conversations is they come in three forms and if we get the form wrong, the conversation session can go extremely badly.
Stop fire fighting so you can stop fire fighting.
January 7, 2019 Benjamin Drury
I’ve lost count of the number of emails I’ve had from clients saying they can’t look at culture now, they’re too busy solving problems and fire fighting. Dealing with issues and people that need immediate attention. The thing is, if your take time out to define, article and implement the right culture, most of those problems go away. If you.. Read more
How to really manage people!
December 24, 2018 Benjamin Drury
Employees shouldn’t be allowed to do what ever they feel like. People will need managing and supporting. They will need their work to be appraised, but this should be a process of training and improvement, not control and punishment.
Forget ‘priorities’, you can only have one ‘priority’!
August 26, 2017 Benjamin Drury
You can actually only ever have one priority. Everything else comes second! Up until as recently as the beginning of the last century, priority was a singular word. It didn’t have a plural. There could be only one (to take a quote from The Highlander!). The etymology of the word suggests that it means “coming first compared to another thing;.. Read more
Preparation! The scouts are right!
July 15, 2016 Benjamin Drury
How ready are you for opportunities when they arrive. How prepared are you to take an opportunity when it presents itself. Opportunities do not wait long. Are you ready for the ones that will come your way today, tomorrow, this week? Opportunities come often, but just pass most people by before they’ve had a chance to take advantage. Those that.. Read more