In 1909 plastic had just been invented and now we’re trying desperately not to use it; a manual worker earned 23 shillings a week, a dozen eggs cost a shilling, Now look at 2019. A report from the TUC reveals that 1.5m people work from home. The relationship between employees and employers has also changed….

It’s a depressing statistic that about 90% of strategic plans are not implemented. Just think about the wasted time and effort that has been put into plans that haven’t been followed. Why does it happen? Patrick Hoverstadt and Lucy Loh from Fractal Consulting  gave a presentation on strategy at Cranfield but presented a new way…

What do you know about Baobab trees?    I spent my early years in Africa and remember them well – they are difficult to forget as they look so strange – so when I heard a programme on the radio linking them to a very unusual business I just had to listen.   This is the…

Someone said this to me at a conference and it made me cringe.  But it also made me question what performance is all about. Finance people tend to think it is about finance. HR people believe it’s about people. Marketing people focus on customers … and so on. In fact, it’s about all these things…