Good morning friends Thank you for your generous comments and reflections marking the fifth anniversary of my coaching practice. Today, we’ll get straight to it. /strategyLast week, I introduced you to Verne Harnish’s Scaling Up. You’ll remember he recommends business leaders focus…
Dear friends I launched my coaching practice five years ago. This week, with a measure of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to summarise my clients reviews of our work. I did this because, like most of us, I am a little…
Dear friends Last week’s letter was lengthy, so today will be briefer (thank you for your comments and for sharing it with your networks). / strategyTwo weeks ago we discussed Gallup’s 2024 State of the Global Workplace Report and focussed…
Dear friends Apologies to those of you who missed my announcement that I wasn’t writing last weekend, I was flattered to know that you missed our letter. I was speaking at Interconnect Systems Strategy Conference and Standard Bank Group’s Software…
Dear friends Thank you for your generous comments after last week’s leadership lessons from Caster Semenya’s Race to be Myself. I appreciated them. Before we start, a quick public service announcement, my favourite wine merchants, The Wine Cellar, have a…
Dear friends It’s been some time since I shared art, food and wine with you. Let’s go… I love LA-based ceramicist Jonathan Yamakami’s little walking vase, one of my favourite artists Matthew Hindley’s work now beautifies these magnificent wines and…
Dear Friends Just four years ago, most of the world was in lockdown. In the next twenty-four months many of us lost loved ones, and some of us were grievously ill. In February 2021, I turned to physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis’s…
Good morning friends Our last two letters focused on the power unlocked by building a scaffolding of meetings in our businesses. Regular, focused flows of communication are the heartbeat of success. However, as I finished last week’s letter, I was…
Dear friends Many businesses and teams are so caught up in day-to-day delivery that they never align how they spend time and resources to their objectives, resulting in enormous wastage. Everything is focused on what must be done; insufficient time…
Good morning dear friends Today, we start with soul for reasons that will become clear. /soulThere are many translations of the Tao Te Ching’s eleventh verse. Each translation presents a slight nuance exploring its core concept, that emptiness can create…
Dear friends Running organisations is a tricky affair. There are no end of strategy books to help you identify the key levers you should pull, the templates that need to be filled, and the metrics to be monitored. Then there are…
Dear Friends After last week’s letter, I received several emails sharing memories of other grandfathers who’d served in WW2 and other conflicts. Each email reflected on the pain that lived on decades past the war. William Bird alerted me…