One of the many executive coaching bloggers on LinkedIn posted recently a question that actually got me thinking about myself for a...

Quite a lot of businesses are going through restructuring at the moment, which can cause anxiety and tension in both the management team...

LinkedIn is becoming more and more of digital vomit than ever. But for some reason I check it every day - I don't know why. Maybe to...

Fourth of April 1994. Thirty years ago to the day, I started work in the firm I'm in now. Big celebration tonight of course. I sat at the...

Everyone is looking for a frictionless way to offer their services that keeps customers sticky, guarantees cashflow, and creates a...

In the big four consultancies there is a collection of people who sit under the title of 'Risk Management' and their job is to review...

A brilliant young woman presented to our practice recently about the challenges unconscious bias places upon the female sex and the...

Pretty much every consulting bid now has a requirement to demonstrate that it is fulfilling the target client's diversity and inclusion...

The UK newspaper the Guardian published a survey recently that showed that girls aged between 7 - 21 in the UK felt more miserable in the...

The outside world will say 'don't be deceived into thinking anything else. Building trust in society, solving complex problems for the...

There are so many Chief something or other roles these days that if you haven't got Chief in your title then you really are an also-ran....

Every year we get invited to a large room for 7 hours where we have to listen to a collection of senior partners give us speeches that...

One of the things you're told when you're part of a large consulting firm is that 'no matter what the problem, there's someone in our...

People used to ask me when I was a roving international consulting expert, 'so, what does good look like?' And for a while I'd say...

You don't win new business as a consultant unless you invest time in nurturing client relationships, create relevant ideas to help your...

I've worked in 50+ countries over the years, across all the continents (save Antarctica - not a lot of demand there), and am pretty much...

There's always a next big thing. From Y2K to Brexit, from the Blockchain to the Metaverse, consultants are always looking to find ways to...

When you're responding to a request for a proposal from a client and you know the opposition is strong, there is a desperate urge to find...