I live in Malaysia and every summer I go back to the UK to see family and friends. And the plans for 2020 were “unprecedented” – I had...

I was reading an article in HBR this week entitled “What makes a good leader”. It was written in 2004 but still stands good....

I love this video. I came across it a few years back in Shell when a great colleague of mine shared it with his leadership team. One of...

For many years (just about 20 in fact), I worked for Shell. As a manager in Shell it was my job to lead teams and develop individuals not...

It’s a busy week this week – Canada Day and US Independence Day (do they really still call it that?) and it’s the second half of the year...

I remember my niece’s first birthday party: it was a big moment as, until then, she had never tasted chocolate. Her food had been...

Following on from my previous blog about creating a thinking organisation, I want to spend a bit of time on the first tool I mentioned...

We’ve all heard this expression in change management: in order to get people on board and supportive of a new initiative, make them think...

You know that feeling when you come back from holidays and you have fresh eyes – you can see new opportunities and somehow some of the...

Telling someone that their work is below the expected standard; telling someone that their attitude stinks; telling someone that they...

We are more than halfway through the first quarter of 2019 which means only a few more weeks until we see quarter one results. By now you...