- November 16, 2016 5 Top Tips for Getting a Pay Rise!Hands up if you deserve a payrise! Yep, of course you do. And look around, everyone else has their hands up too. But payrises have been few and far between in recent times. In fact, adjusted for inflation, average earnings went down by 10% between 2008 and 2014. So...
- June 19, 2011 Follow up on creativityJust thought I’d follow up on my last article on innovation. Perhaps I was a bit too harsh on business people who are uncomfortable with the creative process. I came across a lovely description recently which which very humorously brings out its painful nature. It was on the website of...
- June 14, 2011 Is creativity the most important business skill?I had a bit of a clear out recently and came across an old magazine, a special 75th anniversary edition of Business Week, and I had to sit down and read it again, as you do, because the whole edition was dedicated to the subject of innovation. They had looked...
- January 6, 2011 Do you work with a psychopath?!Do you work with a psychopath? Well, your boss can get pretty stroppy at times and you’ve probably had doubts about that guy in accounts but a real certificate-carrying psycho? We’ve all seen the films and we think we know what psychopaths are like. Fortunately, most of them are locked...
- September 12, 2010 The Secrets Of High-Performing TeamsIf your team wins, you win. In fact, you only win if your team wins. We all work in a team. A business is even a team of teams. In team games, you only win if your team wins. Knowing this moves your focus on to achieving the team...