We are often asked how to identify high value activities (HVA’s) within a business or career, and how to devote optimal time and effort to them. This high performance action covers both questions. A HVA is one that produces (disproportionately)…
Success can drown happiness. That probably seems a highly illogical statement … but it depends on how you define success. We contend, strongly, based on the lives of so many people that success can stifle general happiness. History is littered…
The list of fallacies about what causes success … in business and in life … is endless. Some of them are just quick fix type approaches that appeal to the human psyche of wanting things quickly and easily, some are convoluted…
No one is perfect and neither is any organization. So, mistakes are going to occur, and, in fact, they are a necessary part of improvement. How a business, a team or an individual deal with mistakes is therefore important to…
One of the most important decisions any organisation make is the appointment of its next person. It’s one thing to skillfully select new people but it’s another helping them to perform once they are on board. This article gives a…
Each of us has a unique approach to life. We have developed individualised reactions to situations in which we find ourselves. It is not really helpful for me to think of how, if I were some other person, I would…
Not sure why this phrase still even exists in business! Commonly, it has been an objective of business to try to have low staff turnover … why would that be? Keeping ‘experienced’ people, the costs of replacement, consistency of team…
Competence is either conscious or unconscious. The difference matters and should to be understood to maximize performance. There are some people who are conscious of what makes them competent in whatever area of expertise we are looking at, and there…
How do you feel about the meetings you attend or run in your organisation? Are they highly effective, satisfactory, poor or somewhere in between? The probable answer is that they vary from meeting to meeting. The cost of holding ineffective…