When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffet a strange thing happened. Somebody who was also there asked them to write down the one thing that most contributed to their success. They both wrote the same word – FOCUS.
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How to be effective in business in one word
Tagged with: effectiveness, Focus
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development, Time Management
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development, Time Management
It’s Easter – a time to reflect perhaps?
Are we as effective as we can be? That’s about doing the right things, right; right? (A big nod to Peter Drucker there). In other words: keeping on mission. So why don’t we do that then? Three reasons. 1 Sometimes…
How to get more out of any course you attend
All of us have a little gremlin sitting on our shoulders. It’s there to help us, well it believes it is. It doesn’t want us to fail: bad for our ego; others will laugh at us; we’ll look weak and…
A bear-trap we can all fall into when trying to improve
Almost everybody will be met with this urge when trying so hard to improve themselves
Nothing great grows in your comfort zone
Is your comfort zone holding you back? Is it time to move out of yours
One big reason people underachieve in business (plus the remedy)
In today’s business world everybody is busy with day-to-day stuff. All urgent and all in our faces. Emails, mobile phones, social media and back-to-back meetings might make you feel busy but there’s a downside to this. A MASSIVE downside! In…
3 things to coax people out of their comfort zone
The hardest part of moving people out of their comfort zones is getting them to take the first step, here’s a tip on how to make that happen.
Tagged with: Comfort zone, positive thinking, Success, work smarter
Posted in 1 Foundations For Growth, Behavioural Change, Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development
Posted in 1 Foundations For Growth, Behavioural Change, Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Personal Development
The Secret Power Of Persuasion
First thing to say this is not a political blog post but it does draw on the remarkable UK General Election of June 2017. Why did the Tories lose when they started off in such a super-strong position? How did…
Posted in Efficiency & Effectiveness, Mike's Take On
Positive Deviation: how to massively improve anything
Positive deviation is a little know way of dramatically improving the performance of your team. Be ahead of the curve!
Tagged with: positive deviance, positive deviation, process improvement
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness
5 proven tools to make you more productive online
Some free online tools to help you get more of your emails opened and blogs read.
Tagged with: blog tools, blogs, Communication, cool tools, efficiency, email subject lines, getting emails opened, online tool, opening blogs, writing blog titles
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Sales Communication
Posted in Blog, Efficiency & Effectiveness, Sales Communication