Business Leadership and People Management

Basic Premise   Many of us drive within the legal speed limit (or just slightly above it) only because we fear being caught and punished.  Without that downside risk many would establish a [...]

Michael Gerber is famous for remarking that many small business owners are “technicians who have suffered an entrepreneurial seizure”, but I am becoming more and more aware of a parallel class of [...]

What sets excellent workplaces apart from “other” workplaces?  Here’s some research against which you might like to score your own workplace. There are 15 significant factors [...]

If you employ people then give thanks to Abraham Maslow for a simple and useful insight into why they might work for you.  Maslow postulated a “hierarchy of human needs” which when interpreted [...]

In a study of 375 of the Fortune 500 companies, Bain & Company identified three stages to a downturn and two contrary behaviours to each stage. The stages are: Storm clouds – the first [...]

In a recent blog we nominated “Increase Your Productivity” as one of only four ways to increase profits and then focused down onto increasing “human productivity” by [...]

We often enjoy the privilege of working with fast-growing businesses and their emerging leadership teams as most have realised that the rate of growth of their leaders controls the rate of growth [...]

Why So Glum? The so-called “news media” devotes 90% of its time and space to the bottom 2% of the population – the 2% who lie to, cheat, steal from, assault and kill other [...]

If you’d like to create some very positive “glue” with which to stick your best young talent to you for the next couple of years, here’s a little exercise that’s [...]

In times of challenge, excellent leadership will be the common factor for the majority of those businesses who thrive, so it’s probably timely to share a couple of thoughtful insights about [...]