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Why a “Save Money” Mindset is Costing UK Businesses Their Future

Across the UK, a pattern has emerged: business leaders are holding back on investment, clinging tightly to cash reserves, and focusing relentlessly on cost control. It’s an understandable instinct in uncertain times, but the data is clear: this mindset is...

14/08/2025

Overcoming the Challenges Of Situational Leadership

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Overcoming the Challenges Of Situational Leadership

29/08/2024

How to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement (By Deliberately Becoming a D*ck!)

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How to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement (By Deliberately Becoming a D*ck!)

Creating a culture of continuous improvement in the workplace is a goal for many leaders, but achieving it can be challenging. Anyone who follows any of the numerous leadership “experts” on LinkedIn will be forgiven for thinking that to be...

31/07/2024

What if I’m the problem? Every problem in business is a leadership problem.

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What if I’m the problem? Every problem in business is a leadership problem.

That’s a bold statement, isn’t it?! The first time I heard one of my mentors say it, it bothered me. “Leaders” get a hell of a lot of bad press. I use inverted commas with the term leaders because it’s...

24/03/2024

When to introduce a new level of leadership?

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When to introduce a new level of leadership?

Leadership challenges for fast growing business. Any sensible person will tell you that leadership development is crucial for all businesses. It gives you the best chance of thriving because effective leadership ensures the culture, standards, and compassion are balanced so...

03/03/2024

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Stop Being a Nice Leader

Wait! I can’t mean that, can I? Surely, if we’re not nice, we won’t create a cohesive team. Being a nice person comes with good intent. In fact, it comes with lovely intent. An intent to create a cohesive team,...

18/12/2023

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10 Qualities of Great Mentorship

Good mentors, like good leaders, can have a lifelong impact on their mentees. A mentor is someone who’s an expert in the subject area, but it takes far more than expertise to be a good mentor. There is an abundance...

04/12/2023

Quiet Quitting: A Poor Attitude, or a Failure of Leadership?

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Quiet Quitting: A Poor Attitude, or a Failure of Leadership?

There has been so much talk about this concept of quiet quitting, or the great resignation, both in mainstream and social media. Lines have been drawn, sides have been taken, and teeth and claws are being sharpened! The question I...

13/11/2023

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Work Less, Achieve More

There’s a belief that in order to achieve success, we need to work for it. While that may well be true, it often leads to an interpretation that it means working long, hard, hours. To be financially secure, some think...

06/11/2023

Here’s how I went from mediocre to specialist…

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Here’s how I went from mediocre to specialist…

How do you judge someone’s ability as a leader? Is it their ability to get results? What about their team members getting results? How do you determine whether the results are good? Do the team members hit their minimum goals,...

23/10/2023