Well the CEO CookOff date is getting closer with terrifying speed and more and more I think about the positive impact this initiative could have on young people, their overall health plus the real help it could give to individuals who are going through excessively challenging times. I believe that what Ronni Khan and now [...]
Click on the link to view and download the Second Chapter: 2) Are you two people? I am choosing to upload one chapter each week from my first book – ‘52 Brilliant Ideas how to Change Your Life’. Many of you may not have read it and, although written some time ago most of the ideas are as [...]
I am choosing to upload one chapter each week from my first book – ‘52 Brilliant Ideas how to Change Your Life’. Many of you may not have read it and, although written some time ago most of the ideas are as applicable today as they were when I wrote them. I have modified them where [...]
They SAY Autumn is a time to slow things down, ready for a winter of hibernation. Well, I think I must have lost the memo! This quarter has started off full of adventure, appointments, engagements and programmes with absolutely no signs of letting up! Myself and Cam from The Marketing Academy - anchor away! [...]
This Thursday we see the release on the second video in “The Tale of a Living Leader” series, the fascinating life story of Personal Leadership expert Penny Ferguson. For the first time, Penny let the cameras in to her home and opened up in a compelling interview with reporter Tony Silman. This incredible four part story [...]
When you host discussion groups and meetings at work, do you find that a few of the more reserved members of the team are less inclined to share their ideas? How many meetings have you attended where the loudest voices always get their points across whereas other members of the team are left frustrated because [...]
How many times has your success been hindered by a very un-useful belief, or limiting assumption, about yourself? Limiting assumptions are something that we are all inclined to be guilty of. They can limit our thinking around what we believe we are capable of and therefore our performance is less than it might perhaps be. [...]
So often we think of ‘no’ as that impossible word. It’s a word that we rarely allow ourselves the relief of saying, for fear of disappointing or offending our peers. Although one of the worst places for this is in the work place, it happens all the time – with our boss, friends, colleague, partners and even [...]
Do you see yourself as two people? You may not see it at first, but if you think about it – you have the achieving, determined and smooth talking entrepreneur inside you, and you also have the you that you take home. The caring mother or father, brother or sister. Or maybe there is one [...]
Recently I was at a speaking engagement in Austria with The Marketing Academy and, amongst others, there was a really fascinating and profoundly inspirational speaker – John M Neill, Chairman and CEO of Unipart. I consider that one of the most important things he said out of the whole hour was when he pulled his [...]