Ten Tips to Motivate yourself
Yes, it’s one of those days; grey, wet and dreary. So I need to remind myself of a few tips to pick myself up and here they are: 1. Get up and move around! 2. Trust your intuition and Read More
Enemies in to Allies?
Here is a rather nifty process from the Harvard Business Review for getting over some people blockages when in a new job. The case study they use is when a younger new manager comes in over an ‘old timer’ whom Read More
Act, don’t plan
This is the message in March’s HBR in unpredictable environments and is the conclusion that they take from research from the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School of 27 entrepreneurs. The articel is called ‘New Project? Don’t Analyze – Act’ Read More
The Search for Meaning
Search for meaning is key for managing people longer term. Viktor Frankl put it like this: “If we take man as he really is we make him worse. If we over-estimate we promote him to what he can really be!” Read More
PR – It is for You!
I seem to be meeting up with smart women at the moment. On Monday I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Henrietta Hirst of Par Excellence PR. She is focused, disciplined and knows her market which is hedge funds Read More
Lunching with a Social Media Whizz – Good News!
In order to catch up with the latest goings on the digital world I went off to Dean Street to lunch with the social media whizz, Keren Lerner. She has some great ideas and her company, Top Left Design, builds Read More
Skills for the 21st Century Manager
The January/February issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) has an interesting article pointing out that the world of work has changed dramatically over the past decade, this will be more apparent to the older reader who was not brought Read More
Just for Women?
This weekend’s FT has a very interesting article on career advice for ambitious women. This is based on Heather McGregor’s ‘Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for Ambitious Women’ (Amazon link) and uses her network of very successful women to make 9 Read More