Procrastination

The moment I mention the word ‘procrastination’ at my seminars, I get a groan from the audience, as they collectively acknowledge their own perplexity at this human dimension. Can you do anything about it? Well, yes, plenty – if you appreciate its varied origins and...

The Body and Soul of a Company

Sometimes, people ask me about my ‘method’ for moving a company in trouble to one that improves by 30% in the first year. They expect me to say that by applying ‘this’ or working on ‘that’ we manifested the turnaround. But the answer is simpler than that: what we did...

Leadership

There are so many papers and ideas about leadership – including many from this author, that I think it is time to capture the essence of leadership in a helpful way within a few sentences. Here goes! The Sign of a Good Leader If we start with the results first, it is...

Tempus Fugit

Tempus fugit, or time flies, in Latin couldn’t be more true today – than it ever has been. The speed warp, especially via technological change, becomes more obvious if one person looks back in real life. This note attempts to bring the reader to times gone by in order...

Things Are Not As They Seem

Ours is a visual and sometimes a superficial world. We can be quite convinced that, that1 which we see, tells the whole story and the only story. This temporary blindness often prevents us from getting to the heart of the matter – which can affect us seriously. Let us...

The Engineer and Business

Having prided ourselves on applying the engineering philosophy to creating a highly successful CCCCbusiness model to assist clients, perhaps it is time to explain what this engineering approach to running a business is all about. 1. What is an Engineer? As stated...