by Kate Mercer | Oct 5, 2017 | Leadership
CEOs can cling to the myth, particularly in professional service firms, that they can continue to focus on their specialist work and a full client load. Someone needs to manage the place, so how do you make your organisation work when you’ve reached that...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 24, 2017 | Leadership
The vast majority of companies fall in the middle between a start-up and a fully mature organisation, and need different management and leadership from either of the other two. When I started my last ‘proper’ job in the early 1980s I quickly registered on all the...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 19, 2016 | Organisation Culture
As a business leader, you have many competing demands on your budget. Although you can easily justify spending money on training and developing people, and connect this with beneficial effects on your company’s performance and culture (can’t you?), you do of course...
by Amanda Baines | Nov 28, 2015 | Leadership
For your organisation to be a success you need good managers, and too often this is left to chance. Teams and individuals who are badly managed are at best disengaged and at worst can actually sabotage your business. Your rising stars leave to go to work for your...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 10, 2015 | Leadership
If you’re like many of the people we speak to every day, probably not! But you’ve managed to read this far, so stick with it – we have something to say about how you manage your time. These days people seem to have less and less time: the more work you do, the more...
