It began very well – another early morning run, this time along the beach at Porthleven Sands – a hard slog on shifting sand that taxes my leg muscles and my lungs but gives me more time to think as I enjoy the sea at my side and the view to the horizon. As Dan
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Out at lunchtime today for a run up to the top of Godolphin Hill, from where (in a strong Westerly that blows all the cobwebs out) I can view all points of the compass – North to Redruth, East to RNAS Culdrose and the radar station at Goonhilly, South beyond Penzance towards Lands End and
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Here’s an original Chris Barrow quotation: There are some people who know a lot of things but don’t know many people and there are some people who know a lot of people but don’t know many things. The people who know a lot of things but not many people tend not to be as successful
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In Krishna De’s blog at http://www.krishnade.com/blog/wp-trackback.php?p=231 she mentioned a quotation that I attributed to Thomas Leonard and, I should add, the coaches I trained with at CoachU in the 90’s. Leonard commented that: “The coach doesn’t do the work – the client does the work.” I wonder how many coaches would recognise that in fact
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In Krishna De’s blog at http://www.krishnade.com/blog/wp-trackback.php?p=231 she mentioned a quotation that I attributed to Thomas Leonard and, I should add, the coaches I trained with at CoachU in the 90’s. Leonard commented that: “The coach doesn’t do the work – the client does the work.” I wonder how many coaches would recognise that in fact
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I’ve called an extraordinary management meeting today – pulled Team CB off the road and we are all going to meet at Bonnie’s house. Why? Because I monitor my cash flow like a hawk, using an Excel spreadsheet that we call the “MOAS” (mother of all spreadsheets). The MOAS is created during my annual retreat
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I’ve taken a plunge. After a search on Google I found Mark White at http://www.betterbusinessblogging.com/. After starting to read his free e-course on business blogging I called him in a technical emergency last week and found his style to be “right up my street” as well as in the same time zone and in relaxed
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I’m about to start my third week of working mainly from a desk (although that desk has been alternately a home office and a garden table during our recent glorious weather). This is in stark contrast to months of “road warrior” lifestyle in the first half of the year. It has been a chance to
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In the 1980’s I was a financial planner and fortunate to work for what was then Hambro Life Assurance (now Allied Dunbar). Then, it was an owner-managed business and Sir Mark Weinberg was the inspirational leader who drove a talented management team to build a young, upstart, unit-linked life assurance company that “broke all the
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I reflect upon a conversation with a prospective new client last Monday. He is an orthodontist who first heard me speak at the annual conference of the British Ortho Society (BOS) last year. This encouraged him to subscribe to the ezine, which he has read since then. Initially he called our offices about 2 months
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