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Leading and Succeeding in Challenging Times
Leaders are faced with the on-going dilemma of maintaining long-term and sustainable profitability, whilst having to meet the short-term gains demanded by investors. Here are a few insights into how...
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by Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS In an interview with the New York Times, Bill Marriott, chairman of the Marriott Hotel Group, shared this useful piece of advice. He explained that as a young officer in...
View ArticleYou’ve changed! Why Didn’t Anyone Notice?
An article by Marshall Goldsmith Shared by Andrew Cooke, Blue Sky GPS It’s much harder to change others’ perceptions of our behavior than it is to change our own behavior. People’s perceptions of us...
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The Power of Words
How you say what you say can make you more powerful! How you say what you say matters! It matters in two ways: firstly, it reflects how you perceive things and yourself; and secondly, it affects how...
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The Three “A’s” for Dealing with Conflict
Attacking.Abdicating.Accountability. When dealing with conflict there are only three ways in which you, or your reports, can respond. These are attacking, abdicating and being accountable. Attacking –...
View ArticleThe Risks of Conforming
We often look at the risks associated when people don’t conform, and we often don’t like those who fail to act in the way we want or we expect. But how often do we consider the risks associated with...
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Carry Out a Premortem
How to anticipate problems and failure before they occur We are all familiar with post-mortems and forensic examinations from all the TV crime series. Post-mortems are good for telling you what went...
View ArticleWhy Is It Hard to Change Ourselves?
Change starts with ourselves, but why is it so hard to do? To change ourselves we need to change our behaviour. This is difficult to do and even harder to sustain. In fact it can be one of the hardest...
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Managing the Monkey!
How to free time, reduce your to-do list, and move back to managing from being managed!!! Many managers often find themselves with long to-do lists which get longer, with more seeming to have been...
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Leveraging Deadlines
How to use deadlines to your advantage We often live in fear of deadlines or see them as the main source of our stress. You know how it goes: “Only two months left to make your annual target”, “The...
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