How to run a collaborative change management project (video)
Over the last 18 months, I have been running some huge change projects at my marketing agency. I ran a webinar about the processes I used and some...
Interview with Stephen Bungay: historian, writer and management guru
Stephen Bungay is a management consultant, academic and author of two remarkable books about the Second World War: The Most Dangerous Enemy...
10 career-threatening management myths
Every manager has one goal: to foster a healthy, prospering work environment that brings employees together to get work done....
How Winston Churchill used humour as a management tool
I’ve just finished re-reading Churchill’s war memoirs and also Andrew Roberts’s new book, Masters and Commanders, about the relationship...
5 leadership lessons from the captains of Star Trek
Few science fiction franchises can claim to be as inspirational as the philosophical heavyweight that is Star Trek. Far from being a quaint...
John Boyd: Patterns of Conflict presentation and biography
I had heard about John Boyd’s legendary Patterns of Conflict before I read his biography. But I had never seen it so I went on a quest to...
Yes, this is rocket science: leadership lessons from NASA
I was in Florida to complete my private pilot’s licence but also to get some NASA leadership lessons and management insights. My first...