More disappointing reports on the UK economy have just been published. Why is it then that a group of businesses with a Gloucestershire connection are achieving an average growth rate off the charts?…
Every January, business leaders make commitments. Grow revenue. Improve margins. Build the team. Finally sort out that thing that has been bothering them for years. By March, most of those commitments have faded, but not because leaders lack ambition - because they lack the conditions that turn intention into action.…
Santa manages a distributed team in the Arctic, delivers to 2 billion customers in one night and maintains 100% on-time delivery. No retention issues. No operational leaks. Flawless execution under pressure. Beyond the red suit and reindeer, there are genuine leadership lessons here: clarity of purpose over task lists, real-time feedback instead of annual reviews, and Mrs Claus quietly running operations whilst Santa...…
For many leaders, Christmas brings a natural pause. The diary clears, the inbox slows and for a moment, business leaders have space to think. Most will use this time to review numbers - revenue against target, profit margins, growth percentages. These matter, of course; but they only tell part of the story.…
There's a question every leader should ask their team, but most won't: "Do you feel safe disagreeing with me?" Not "Can you disagree?" (most people technically can). But do they feel…
You can see the difference in how people talk about their work. In a task-driven team, conversations revolve around deadlines and deliverables. In a community, people talk about why the work matters. The question is: what creates that shift? Purpose-led leaders don't manage tasks - they connect people to meaning. …
There's a leadership myth that refuses to disappear: great leaders have all the answers. But when you hide your struggles, your team hides theirs; and when you pretend uncertainty doesn't exist, people stop bringing you problems until they're unfixable. The most effective leaders aren't invulnerable...…
Three leaders received the same email on the same Monday morning in early November. The numbers were in. Q4 was tracking 18% behind target. Eight weeks to close the gap. What happened next…
