‘Busy’ – A hard habit to break

inside a church a clock

“I guess I thought you’d be here foreverAnother illusion I chose to createYou don’t know what ya got until it’s goneAnd I found out just a little too late” For anyone who has a fondness for 1980’s rock ballads, or for whom this era was a formative part of their life, you may well recognise…

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Feedback is a Gift

feedback with an image of three sleeping ducks in a row

Over the last 12 months we’ve completed a number of 360-degree feedback for senior people across a number of different business sectors. All lead others. All set the agenda for where others are headed. All have a significant and wide-ranging impact, and all commissioned their own feedback. None of it was hoisted upon them as…

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Hiking boots, hooves and fun

fun negotiating a bridge of sticks

“Ain’t no mountain high enough, Ain’t no valley low enough, Ain’t no river wide enough”  By Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in 1967 More than fifty years on we recently discovered that’s not true and there are mountains absolutely high enough… This is a story about happiness and it’s role in busy-ness for owners at work. But…

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Leadership and ponytails

horses head

The gym…remember it? It’s the thing you joined back in January just after you’d polished off all of those mince pies and choccies….and around the same time you noticed that the waistband of your favourite suit has shrunk. I bet that if you have a good rummage in your wallet you might even still have…

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Waitrose starts a quiet revolution by featuring B-Corp range

b-corp companies Innocent, Pukka, Ella's Kitchen and Ecover

Waitrose is perhaps the last of the major retailers you’d expect to start a revolution. Yet occasionally they lead on something really innovative. In the words of The Beatles: You tell me that it’s evolution. Well you know we all want to change the world. It should thus be no surprise that Waitrose’s new initiative…

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