The closer you get to senior positions the more you discover that people are less impressive than you imagined they would be. They say you should never meet your heroes and I agree. The trouble is that, as you get older and more senior, you can’t avoid it. I was twenty when I started training
Confused about whether you are generation x or y or a millennial? Here’s a handy guide through the generations. Under 10 – You’re not going to remember any of this You’ll forget almost everything that happens to you up to age eleven. I guess none of it matters? Teens – Risk the kiss You spend
‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’ is an excellent book that will help you keep things in perspective. For example, it invites you to consider what you would talk about in the last hour of your life and suggests that if something that is bugging you now would not be on the list, then it’s not
There are captains of industry who have written books telling you how they got to the top. Don’t listen to them. What you need at the beginning of your career is to listen to someone who only made it half-way to the top and learn from his mistakes. These tips will get you further than
The brightest among us tend not to make the best managers. Management being difficult, you’d think the cleverer you are, the better manager you’d be, but this is not my experience. The business environment moves so fast that speed of decision-making is critical. The most insightful analysis is no good if you take too long