Hire attitude, train skill

This is such a simple, but profoundly sound concept. Someone with a great skill set but not a positive attitude on the bus will cause other good staff to get off. I had an example in the last week where a client was looking for a new member of staff for a specific role. He…

Don’t half arse your time

Multi-tasking is the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. Try going ‘all in’ for that 2 hour task or meeting, eliminating all other distractions. Or 24 hours focused on accomplishing one outcome, or even a week, a month, or year playing full out in one area. It contradicts the work…

Create a larger concern

If I’m sweating the small stuff, a lot of my energy goes into things which in the bigger perspective are not that important. When I play a bigger game, I go beyond being concerned about the smaller things, which then, rather than occur as the ‘be all and end all’, seem to take care of…