Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
There has been a spate of articles lately about Marcus Personn, the 36-year-old Swede who created Minecraft and sold it to Microsoft for $2.5bn last year. He owned a 71% stake. In March Continue Reading →
Jeremy Corbyn is not the most photogenic leader you can imagine, and yet he’s doing rather well. Why? For the past 20 years the received wisdom in politics, here in Britain Continue Reading →
Peter Drucker, the first and probably the greatest management guru, made a major contribution to defining the modern corporation. He also gave his view on what it is to be Continue Reading →
In 1949 William Reilly published a book called “How to Avoid Work.” It is a short guide to finding your purpose and doing what you love. It tells us: “Your life Continue Reading →
Management is about doing things right: efficiency and incremental improvement. Leadership is about doing the right things: choosing what matters and what doesn’t. Both halves of The Churning provide tools and frameworks to enhance your Continue Reading →
Yesterday’s post showed how being clear on purpose and values enables you to focus on achieving what matters most, even the most extreme churning. Today we list the seven very practical benefits that taking the Continue Reading →
Different people are motivated by different drivers. Some are motivated by fear, some by fortune. Some by fury, frustration, or the need for fame. And some people seek to liberate Continue Reading →
They say the most important thing about climbing the ladder of success is to first make sure you are climbing the right ladder. For Paulo Coelho, success is being able Continue Reading →
There are four ways of looking at obstacles. One is to see them simply as obstacles: something getting in the way of you doing your work, an annoyance to be removed. Continue Reading →
Good advice here from Steve Jobs. But how can we achieve this when everything around us is churning and our inner voice is being drowned out by a hundred different messages Continue Reading →