In a world that can sometimes feel like someone stacked the deck against you when you weren't looking, it's hard to achieve anything without a level of compassionate determination. Goals, objectives, performance indicators – these things rarely achieve themselves (and...
Sitting here today in a wet and windy Brighton, I’m caught by the sudden change and transitions that the world around me is making from summer green to golden autumn. After the (thankfully) glorious weather of early lockdown and the heatwave in August, the shift to...
Why am I saying personal development is so important? We all know people who look like they are destined for amazing things, but never quite get there. They might have great commercial skills, intelligence, vision and all the other qualities that should lead to...
we're in changing times and the modern business environment is more complex, diverse and competitive than it has ever been. Thanks largely to technological advances over the past couple of decades, it is also changing at a more rapid rate than anything we have ever...
Organisations are collections of human beings. And the best organisations have leaders capable of facilitating the most effective ways for them to work together collaboratively toward a common goal. Freek Vermeulen, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship...
There are plenty of examples in business history of firms that expanded at phenomenal rates, frequently aided and abetted by acquisitions, becoming the darlings of the stock market, only to crash into the dust shortly afterwards. It’s all too easy to blame such...