Work
The development of people and organisations to deliver impact
If the future is looking tough, the wise are prepared.
Develop quality people in your team and your network.
Build your strategy and your tactical ability to deliver.
Working in small business, multinationals, not for profit and across the public sectors in very different places grants different perspectives. Such perspectives allows me to support you to achieve your full potential. Your potential – personally, professionally and in your organisation’s development.
I have achieved, with quality people in excellent teams, demonstrable results and impact. Working for any company, organisation or institution is always an education when working with the right mindset. It is this approach that is the foundation to achieving.
My own, personal, experiences have changed the way I work professionally.
Working with great business people in all types and sizes of company. Been held hostage twice and at the wrong end of guns. Blended negotiating with country leaders to listening to communities left without livelihoods. This rich breadth and depth of experience has created a blend of knowledge and skills I bring to your service so you and your business reach full potential
Work is Purposeful, Creative and Meaningful
Changes of pace and direction? Sports Performance into Your Business
A comment heard talking about Premier League performers - He needs to go and stand on the side-lines of a few Sunday morning games and experience, really experience, commitment. To this can be added; the joys of being involved in your own game, own business, and...
Points of inflection – Where to Decide and What to consider?
We all are taking business decisions daily; probably hourly. How we take these decisions depends on the speed required and the seriousness, the impact, of taking the decision. The term inflection point has appeared in business literature – is your business at an...
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Words and Deeds The role of Supply Chain Management for Opportunity and Empowerment
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Words and Deeds The role of Supply Chain Management for Opportunity and Empowerment Perhaps, the Deeds should be written deeds, since we seem to have been big on words and small on deeds? Ban-Ki Moon, UN Secretary-General signed off on...
When the Going gets Tough? Show Your Vulnerability to Build Relations of Substance.
When the Going gets Tough? Show Your Vulnerability to Build Relations of Substance. Steps toward Stoicism? The old adage runs, when the going gets tough, the tough get going – Very true, and such situations show a particular style of leadership. But is it the only...
When One Door Closes, Another Opens? – What Bollocks?
More than ever, we seem to enjoy the pithy one liner with the positive implications. On all social media, personal or professional, we witness people, often with grandiose titles for the jobs they do, posting the one liner and inferring it has far deeper meaning...
Virtually All of Us will Lead
Virtually All of Us will Lead Right circumstances? All of us can, must, become leaders Crook 2018 Built on the quality input of Henley Management School Cohort 1997 There is tremendous hyperbole generated regarding leadership as we hear of panacea solutions to make us...
United Nations’ Own Reformation?
United Nations’ Own Reformation1 To prompt structured dialogue and commensurate actions - To make substantial change a reality A bureaucracy will not change unless required to change by external factors; the application of Newton’s physics laws to organisational...
Twenty Years on from the Annus horribilis Day Trip Ends Night One
Twenty Years on from the Annus horribilis Day Trip Ends Night One Queen Elizabeth described 1997 as an annus horribilis, horrible year, following the death of Princess Diana and several other events. Events where public relations were rotten adding to the profound...
The Thing to Do
The thing to do to instigate Real Life Changes Just Cuss Yourself (contains a profanity) It comes, as something of a wrench to walk away from what is comfortable. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe, next week looks better. Well, maybe. Nowadays, tremendous amounts of information...
The Smell of Crime and carrying a Killer Runga
Hakuna Matata? The Smell of Crime when carrying a Killer Rungu Early this morning, shaken awake by noise from downstairs bringing me back from the Land of Nod where sweet dreams had not been forthcoming, I went downstairs with trepidation; as I had the last two...