Much has been written over the years, even by me, about how to influence another person… After examining a few bucket-loads of literature, asking lots of questions, observing behaviours, and personally checking it out in practice, there is no doubt in my mind that the sure-fire way to influencing someone is to—here it is—be committed

Are you one of those leaders who spends so much time and energy on the day-to-day, tactical aspects of your business that you neglect the strategic perspective? If so, you’re not alone. Lots of the leaders I work with want to be more strategic—regardless of whether they head up their organisation, manage a part of

I don’t know about you but my last year was pretty damned good—however that’s not stopping me from figuring out what I can do to make this year even better. What exactly will I do? I need to shift something—a behaviour, or a habit, or an attitude I have towards something or someone—if I’m to

You continue to let me know how useful you’re finding my Leadership Bulletins. Thank you . This time last year readers of the “2011 Greatest Hits” bulletin found it really worthwhile, so I’m repeating the process this year. I’ve listed the seven 2012 bulletins that elicited the highest number of positive comments about how they

A few weeks ago a team member disclosed, “My boss lays low and tries to stay under the radar. He doesn’t care much about what we achieve.” Whether or not that statement is true of his boss or not doesn’t really matter. After all, perception is reality. And it was certainly this team member’s reality