Ideas

Ever had one of those moments where everything   should   have worked, but didn’t? The strategy was solid. The logic was sound. The intent was good. And yet… it flopped. Remember:   failure isn’t the opposite of success, it’s the raw material of it. In my 35+ years leading teams, turning around businesses, and now coaching CEOs and founders, I’ve learned this: 👉 Every “failure” contains a lesson. 👉 Every lesson, if applied, becomes experience. 👉 And that experience, used w

You were brilliant at your job. You delivered fast. Handled complexity. Got results. So they promoted you. And then... The second-guessing. The people issues. The “why is this so much harder than it should be?” feeling. If that’s where you are right now, you’re not broken. You’re just in the   gap between doing and leading. Here’s What You To Know: 🎯   What made you great as an individual contributor…won’t make you great as a leader. You used to: Get things done yourself Rel

I remember sitting for a very long afternoon in Café de Paris in Piccadilly, London. I was negotiating to buy a publishing and digital...

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." A chap called Publilius Syrus wrote that around 2,000 years ago, he was a Latin writer...

If you want to move up in the world, you need a good one... I was asked for my elevator pitch several years ago and have to say, I didn't...

I was mentoring a chap last month and he was oozing stress and exhaustion. Key advice: You can’t outwork a problem; so fix the problem....

Are you making it "okay" to get it wrong? I think this is a phrase I first heard when I was running a newspaper commercial department in...

The art of habits and consistency “We are what we repeatedly do” Aristotle said this, or at least that’s what he meant. There is some...

I used to run a Video production company and I learnt many things. Now my coaching clients ask me for advice on how they can make and use...