by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 30, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Giving people orders – commanding people to do things – works (a bit) in some situations. We’ve got used to it. We (the commanded) roll our eyes, sigh and get down it even if, as is so often the case, the person doing the ordering has clearly missed the point....
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 17, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Every leader is faced with a long list of issues that are not absolutely central to the implementation of the core vision but that, nevertheless, need attention. There are, happily, many talented people throughout the organisation who may not have been given...
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 6, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
All of a leader’s great plans come to nothing if they are not successfully executed. This edited version of ‘Make it Happen’ from 100 Great Leadership Ideas appeared in the Sunday Times. The problem is not the ideas. The problem is getting them...
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 3, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Back in the 1980’s, the General Electric Company found itself in the middle of a PR disaster that stemmed from an apparently minor issue (a tiny minority of workers at a plant producing components for the US military were fiddling their time cards to get a bit...
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 2, 2013 | Business & Leadership
What are the 5 key characteristics of every great entrepreneur? Or possibly six (see below). Well, I’m afraid that, to quote Monty Python’s Flying Circus, they are arguably “bleedin’ obvious”. The problem is, I did a lot of reading about business leaders when...
