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Would you pass the 10 Day Leadership Challenge?

There isn’t much point in running your own business unless you take advantage of some of the freedom that it gives you. You’re not a full-time employee so you can choose what you spend your time working on. Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to the British Army’s Recruitment and Training Division,…

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The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Backside: How context shapes everything.

If you read any articles on LinkedIn, the majority of them will simplify leadership. One of my favourite lines is that ā€œLeadership is all about empowering people and just letting them get on with itā€. I thought about this and asked myself the question, ā€œwhy do we have command and control then?ā€ If leadership is…

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3 Simple Steps to Improve your Meetings

Earlier this week, I read that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is ā€˜on a quest to cut back on meetings’. http://qz.com/571436/tim-armstrong-is-on-a-quest-to-cut-back-on-meetings-at-aol/ The article talks about Tim’s efforts to ā€˜boost company culture and efficiency by discouraging unnecessary – and unnecessarily long – internal meetings’. Armstrong has proposed that meetings should default to 30 minutes instead of an…