Defeat the temptation of the Silver Bullet
Temptation: it always seems like a good idea at the time Many leaders I meet are searching for a silver bullet.Feeling pressure to improve performance, they look too quickly to the outside for answers—shuffling their management teams, buying and selling businesses,...
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The Way Out Is Through The Door
A psychotherapist friend of mine, call him, ‘Max', told me this story about a client he once helped. The guy said he wanted to give up smoking cannabis. He’d seen a bunch of therapists who’d tried all kinds of reasonable-sounding manoeuvres including: Education about...
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How Ratan Tata avoided a ‘Kodak Moment’
Imagine the scene. It’s the early hours of the morning. A young engineer lies awake, unable to sleep because of the excitement. After what seems like an hour of trying to find a comfy position to nod off, he checks the clock. Just fifteen minutes have elapsed since...
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What does good REALLY look like?
Manchester, 1955.The table tennis club has four tables. Beginners start at Table Four, down on the right. If you win, you move left. At Table One, the winner stays on.Anyone can find a game at the club, but the standard at Table One is high –those players are junior...
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Four Lists for Immediately Improved Results
It will take a couple of minutes to read this, and a few more to make the lists. Any one of the items you come up with could make a dramatic difference to your next 90 days, and beyond. I’m going to suggest you make four lists, and think about them in a particular...
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Breaking Out of The Bubble in 2019
Anyone can get caught in a bubble - it happens without you realising it. And even if you notice, it can be hard to escape.I remember one CEO telling me that his big worry was isolation. Not emotional isolation, but isolation from real information. He felt stuck at the...
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