So in the past six weeks I have travelled across three continents, dodged a hurricane and sat on the beach of the black sea watching Bulgarian software developers build boats out of cardboard. I sometimes reflect on how diverse my daily life is and the impact that has on how I view things. Diversity has …
Last week I was in Australia which was a breath of fresh air after Hong Kong. The pace slowed, the people slowed but it got colder. An eight hour flight later and you move to the middle of winter for Australians, which for a Brit is still warm. My body clock however is really getting …
Well it’s been a long and successful week working in Hong Kong with a group of Asian Sales people in the healthcare market. Asia is an amazing place and with over 60% of the worlds population living here it is to say the least, busy. The regions growth has been amazing and most of the …
Stress in the workplace Working with companies all over the world, and travelling from one continent to the other I often witness unhappy people, and recently it seems there are more and more unhappy people walking around and walking into my classroom. So I was recently reading a number of surveys that analysed stress and …
On the road blog – St. Lois to Philadelphia – Stress Read More »
As I sit here writing this blog on my Apple iPhone, I look around and see 99% of the people sitting near me are also looking at their smart device. Couples sit oblivious to each other’s company eyes reflecting the faint glow of the screen they so intently study. I look out of the window …
VUCA In The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman notes that the rate of change today is much different than in the past. “Whenever civilisation has gone through one of these disruptive, dislocating technical revolutions —like Gutenberg’s introduction of the printing press — the whole world has changed in profound ways,” he writes. “But there is …
Well another week another country and this time its Hong Kong, and a mix of Chinese, Korean, English and Finish sales people. The challenge for them is how to sell in a world that is competitive. This organisation make radiotherapy machines which quite frankly amaze me in terms of what they can do. The sales people …
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On average, a leader makes 2,000 decisions a day, 50-100 of which are strategic and any of which could impact on their career and your organisation. In fact, poor decision making costs international business and the global economy around £50 billion per annum. Decision-making is one of the few disciplines hardly ever taught anywhere, yet …
Just finished a two day “creative thinking session” with a mixed nationality group from an automotive company with offices in Germany, and a number of things made me think during this session. Firstly, how easily these days’ international delegates mix, even with a range of language skills from Czechoslovakian to Italian, German and English in …
“The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. If two or more people encounter each other… sooner or later one of them will speak, or give some other indication of acknowledging the presence of the others. This is called transactional stimulus. Another person will then say or do something which is in some way related to the …
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“Inspiring Leaders To Think”
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