Learn from Lincoln in a crisis: don't send that email
During lockdown, I started reading - or more accurately listening on Scribd on my run - to David Herbert Donald's biography of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln. In Chapter 16, he describes Lincoln's fury at G...
8 Jul 20205min
CEOs: are you the biggest problem in managing this crisis?
"...I fear that the "emerging from the crisis" industry will result in leaders repeating the errors made during the 2008 Global Financial Crash after which they pathologised "their people" and introdu...
29 Jun 20207min
GCs: relaunch, don't cut, your law department cum-COVID-19
Everyone is talking about post-COVID. This is wishful thinking. There will be no post-COVID. Ever. Vaccine or no vaccine. As one client put it: it will be forever "cum-COVID", not post. We will live w...
22 Jun 20207min
What should COVID-19 CEOs do about The Mayson Report Section 12.4, if anything?
On the morning of June 11th. 2020 The Centre for Ethics and Law, University College London, published a report written by Professor Stephen Mayson with the title: "REFORMING LEGAL SERVICES - REGULATIO...
15 Jun 202016min
COVID-19 CEOs: Is your use of your "Leave Meeting" button causing "ZOOM cruelty" and damaging your business?
Feelings of shame, hurt & anger, to name just three, were merely business as usual ("BAU") at and after pre-COVID meetings at which people were physically present...
8 Jun 20206min
CEOs: a 7-step COVID-19 business re-launch plan
Last week I worked with a CEO who leads a rapid growth multi-site retail business trying to figure out how to "re-launch" after his employees come back "from furlough". If you are in a similar situati...
1 Jun 20207min
COVID-19 CEOs: stay alert for aggression, active and passive; be kind to self/others
You are the CEO because you are demanding on yourself and others. When the going gets tough, the tough become bloody unreasonable. Don't. The novelty of lockdown has long worn off. It's now a grind; a...
29 Mai 20206min
Three lessons COVID-19 CEOs can learn from Mr Johnson's and Mr Cumming's CEO/COO relationship
Let’s say, for the sake of argument and I know there are some flaws in the analogy, that Mr Johnson is the equivalent of a COVID CEO and Mr Cummings the equivalent of a COVID COO in business. In norma...
28 Mai 202010min
