Why your organisation needs an operations leadership roleA spectre is haunting your organisation…. the spectre of operations! Ever been in a situation where you knew you had a problem, but not…Sep 27, 2023Sep 27, 2023
Transparency is your greatest asset in a crisisWe know that these are strained economic times. At the start of 2023, headlines about the cost of living crisis and economic downturn are…Feb 8, 2023Feb 8, 2023
What nobody tells you about the Important vs Urgent matrixYou probably know the Important vs Urgent matrix. I think the way we can get to the buried treasure here is to pick up where most of…Feb 25, 2021Feb 25, 2021
The hardest (and most useful) lesson I have learned about payI’m not going to sugar-coat it, I’m just going to say it right out. Every approach to pay is wrong in some important sense. That might …Feb 15, 2021Feb 15, 2021
The first thing your growing team needs is a sense of directionIf all your team can fit around a regular, non-comedy-sized dining table, then you can usually stay in good enough contact with everyone’s…Feb 5, 2021Feb 5, 2021
Why the sudden shift to remote working is good for your businessIf you have a leadership role within an organisation then at some point in the last twelve months you’ve probably searched ‘remote working…Jan 27, 2021Jan 27, 2021
How an obsession with delays can benefit your businessIf you’ve read anything about lean management, you will probably have noticed a preoccupation — I might almost say, an obsession — with…Jan 21, 2021Jan 21, 2021
A simple tool for making more effective hiring decisionsI’m afraid there’s no way round it: you are biased, and there’s nothing you can do about it. What’s more, knowing that you’re biased does…Jan 12, 2021Jan 12, 2021