by Guy | May 18, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Success, Working From Home
Research into the past two years of our radically-changed working environment is throwing up some interesting and often somewhat conflicting results. Productivity has improved in some areas but regressed in others, often counter-intuitively. Employee morale has...
by Guy | May 17, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Strategy, Success
What a great way to distinguish between two often-used words. Thinking up new things is great, but without implementation, nothing happens. Essentially, therefore, Creativity + Work = Innovation, and innovation is what’s key to ongoing business success, as the...
by Guy | May 12, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Customers, HR & Personnel, Motivation, Productivity, Profitability, Success, Work Life Balance
In my last post, I was looking at the concept of a 4-day week and some statistics on how American workers, particularly the younger ones, feel about this: in a nutshell, overwhelmingly positive about the concept. A New Zealand-based entrepreneur, Andrew Barnes, came...
by Guy | May 9, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, HR & Personnel, Lifestyle, Motivation, Productivity, Work Life Balance
This really is about making the best use of your time (whether leisure or work) saying that if you make the best use of every day – “the life in your days” – you’ll get so much more out of life and for your business. It came up as I’ve been thinking a good deal over...
by Guy | May 4, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Customers, Excellence, Productivity
MBWA, introduced by HP in the 70s and popularised by management guru Tom Peters in the 80s has successfully taken generations of managers out from behind their desks to become more involved and better leaders. Is it now time to take this concept broader and to the...
by Guy | May 3, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Success
A remarkable man, Benjamin Franklin, and a true polymath. Although most widely known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he was so much more than this: scientist, inventor, businessman, newspaper editor, and more, despite his formal schooling...