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In the beforetimes, and hopefully once more in the future, my family were digital nomads. My calm and happy daughter visited 19 countries before her first birthday, and if it weren’t for a global pandemic would have visited many more by now. As parents, we feel that extensive travel is a huge and beneficial opportunity...

Over 16 years, I’ve definitely worked with more professional services firms than any other category. And in a “work from home” world, the perks for being an accountant or lawyer are on the rise. But you can’t send your termites to a pest control company by email, so their technicians can deal with the problem...

From November 2017 until June 2019, in partnership with businessDEPOT, I produced and recorded 134 episodes of the business leadership video series Blackboard Fridays. Every short episode was designed as a 5 minute burst of insight into a specific topic relevant to succeeding on your business journey. We revisited some important topics – hello “Better...

A recession or economic downturn typically pushes a management team’s focus into becoming very micro (budgets, staffing, banks, costs, refinancing, saving money). If you’re not having a macro conversation right now, you’ll be disconnecting from your business vision – one of the reasons I have said previously that every business needs a counter-cyclical recession response....

Most businesses think they have too many meetings. In reality they don’t have enough, they just have the wrong meetings and run them inefficiently. Change that!