YOUR people are not your number one asset. They are your only asset. So, place leadership at the heart of everything you do. And do it now. Your HR Director becomes Leadership Director and make sure you have one main leadership provider – yourselves – removing all your external dependence in this vital area. (Extract [...]

Time to Read – 2 Minutes, 3 Seconds “How To…” With so much information, knowledge and data available to us all these days, people want to cut to the chase – “how do I do…” I invite you to share your key How To – add as a comment to this or send to me – [...]

WE like to hear inspirational stories in the raw, so what could be better than hearing from a man whose tale fits the bill in more than one sense. Stephen Raw first became aware of the Naked Leader when he attended an ILM conference in London. Having been told about David Taylor’s first book, and inspired by [...]

TO rebuff your detractors, turn their put down around by saying ‘Lead Me, Follow Me, Or Get Out Of My Way.’

IN business, such as in sport, you need hod carriers as well as artists, stability in harness with skill, while caution should be allied to courage and creativity. Remember, as a team, you need to have a range of attributes to make business work and you should consider the objectives of the team and what [...]

PLAN your project today. Firstly, be clear about the end result, the outcome you are seeking to achieve. Visualise your success. Everything else will follow.

STYLE over substance is a common phrase and yet in terms of effective leadership, one without the other is like toast without marmalade. A good leader will adopt a certain style and also have some, or all, of the qualities one might expect of a person faced with making the decisions that matter. So, which [...]

Time to Read – 1 Minutes, and a few scary seconds Kindness Perhaps a rare thing these days Perhaps not I witnessed it when I was in Scotland visiting my parents last week – my dad is just out of a three month stay in hospital after breaking his leg. He is 90, and now very [...]

NEVER hold unnecessary meetings. It might be good to meet regularly on the first Friday of every month but it may be even better to meet only when there is something to discuss.

WE all follow the exit signs to make sure we are able to get out of certain situations – car parks for one! However, beware of a stampede heading for the exits in your company – a sure sign that something is not quite right. While a steady turnover in a business is expected at any [...]

FIND out what drives you. Ask yourself, what do I want, what will that do for me and why is that important to me?

…toughen up Time to Read – Just 60 Seconds Yes, I know that happened to you in the past, but your past does not equal your future… No, sharing your problems does not always help you – a problem shared is a problem doubled… Really? No, you can’t blame your parents for everything… At the end of the day (and [...]

MOST people think of home start as a service provided by the AA and RAC when your car takes exception to those icy winter mornings and yet it applies to business too. Government figures suggest more and more graduates and school leavers have chosen to start up on their own. Running costs are lower from the [...]

USING a sporting analogy, teams win matches. No matter how good the individual, it is the framework of the team that is important as no one man or woman can win a team game on his/her own. Concentrating on his golf for a moment, Tiger Woods is a good example. One of the greatest golfers of all time, some [...]

BUYING decisions are emotional (we stack the logic up afterwards) and they come down to two main drivers. They are things that propel us towards pleasure, or away from pain. Think about what pain your business can help remove, and what pleasure it can help make happen, more often.

(Extract from The Naked Millionaire)