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Business lessons I learned in the Pub

THE WHITE HORSE — I used to work in one. My parents always preferred to eat in them, and since I moved back to London 10 years ago, I haven’t been enough.

Here are the lesson I learned in a pub that help me in business:

1. Teamwork is always better

You know the miserable guy (usually) sitting [...]

The mid-life crisis triathlon: It's what we're not getting at work

IN MY KITCHEN — I was just thinking last week that triathlons and marathons have become the new mid-life crisis. And then I read the story in the Sunday Times Style Magazine: “The rise of the IRON MAN”.

Turns out that triathlons are the fastest growing mass-participation sport in the UK. The article cites Vernon Kay, [...]

People created companies, right? Not vice versa?

LONDON — I have long been a fan of Alfie Kohn the author and professor. Earlier today he tweeted (yes, that’s a verb now) with a link to an article he wrote in 2003 called “What does it mean to be well educated?”

Like most things he writes I find it sets me to thinking about [...]

Communication at work: Sports analogies

BREWSTER WHITECAPS — The flyball goes deep into centre-right field. Two guys run for it. Just at the last second one drop to his knees and almost upends his team-mate… who catches the ball. Play made.

Two innings later, same team. Centre-left. Two men stand and watch the ball fall between them.

It can go either way. [...]

Internal Comms in South East Asia

ANOTHER TAXI IN KL — I am on my way to the airport. The circus is leaving town. In another 24 hours of lounges and airplanes I will be home.

It’s been a hugely rewarding experience. I have spent the last two days locked in a room with internal communications people from Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, [...]

Leadership in times of crisis

FULHAM ROAD — I am doing a webcast for PR Week this afternoon. It’s a companion to an article on internal communications and leadership that will be running in the magazine this week.

I am looking through the questions that we’ll be addressing and they’re quite fun to answer.

Q. Why do organisations need to take internal [...]

Training: Teaching business acumen helps everyone too

LONDON — I am still at it. Reading some of the magazines that have stacked up on my desk.

Do you remember Jack Stack? The improbably named head of a small unit of International Harvester who is seen as the father of open-book management? He’s in this same issue of Inc Magazine talking about his daughter’s [...]

Training: Things to do in a downturn

A PACKED TRAIN TO STAMFORD BRIDGE — I liked this quote I have just read in Inc magazine. Entrepreneurial leaders were asked what people should do right now to energise their employees and get the business back on track:

Training sometimes seems like a small thing but it is actually the first step in empowering people [...]

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