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Thought Grenade: Can principles still be your anchor in choppy seas?
Thought Grenade: Can you innovate too early?
Thought Grenade: Centres of Excellence
Thought Grenade: Learning in flow
Thought Grenade: Growth Leadership
Thought Grenade: Fear is the hidden handbrake on progress
Thought Grenade: Unlock ambition in its many forms
Thought Grenade: The power of routine
Thought Grenade: Good enough is good enough
Thought Grenade: Micromanagement
Thought Grenade: The speak test for strategy
Thought Grenade: Reverse mentoring
Thought Grenade: How to deal with a rebellion
Thought Grenade: Voice versus audience
Thought Grenade: Re-framing success
Thought Grenade: Embrace the beginner mindset
Thought Grenade: Story Scaling
Thought Grenade: Belief
Thought Grenade: Melt-ups and melt-downs
Thought Grenade: The mirror and the megaphone
The Peter Principle for Businesses
Thought Grenade: Show your working
Thought Grenade: The Strategy Conductor
Tall Poppy Farming
RAPPED: Complexity is not a flex
Complexity is not a flex
The future of code is chat
Thought Grenade: AI - dogsbody or dynamo?
Thought Grenade: Share to grow
Challenger mindsets aren't just for underdogs
Thought Grenade: Trust the process
Thought Grenade: Fractal zoom in hierarchies
Thought Grenade: Get your story straight
What do you do when a team member is struggling?
Are your teams innovating with Gen AI in secret?
Meet AI Jules - my digital twin
I created a digital twin, AI Jules to talk about whether there are any good use cases for using AI versions of ourselves to do the…
Thought Grenade: B2Bs think more B2C
Thought Grenade Storytelling Risk Register
Make your technology proportions proportionate
Don't let perfect be the enemy of progress!
Make health your number one priority
When the word 'interim' in job titles isn't helpful
Make a feedback habit for your communications
Thought Grenade: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
Thought Grenade: Everyone owns the customer
Thought grenade: Empathy is the antidote to a toxic silo
Thought Grenade Are you ready for reinvention?
The 3 connections making a good business story
Thought Grenade: AI is just another Biro
L'Eroica 2024
My experience of riding L'Eroica 2024 - a legendary 200km ride around Tuscany, 50% of it strade biance on a vintage 1983 Viscount steel…
Positive Momentum cycles the 315km Vätternrundan
I joined 3 of my fellow Positive Momentum partners to cycle the 315km Vätternrundan - ride around a Swedish lake in one night.
Storytelling for Employee Engagement
When your people are really engaged, they collaborate better, they innovate faster, then enjoy themselves at work, and do better work.
Storytelling for Finance
Five tips for Finance folk to help their colleagues make sense of the numbers.
Storytelling for Technology
The secret to successful transformations is a trusting relationship between the Technology team and the rest of the business.
Storytelling for Sales
Sales is a love story between supply and demand, so here's a four-step plan to capture your buyers' hearts, minds, and cash.
Storytelling for Strategy
When you think of strategy like a story, then it becomes memorable and repeatable.
Communication vs Constipation Pt2
Part 2 of this particular leadership dilemma, and this time I focus on building the right environment for 2-way comms within your teams
5 areas of business which rely on storytelling
The first in a series of videos exploring storytelling for business.
Troubadour vs Talisman
No.14 in my series of leadership dilemmas. What does your team need more - someone who can rev them up, or a talent whisperer?
Crisis Management
Tessa Curtis joins me for a 6-pack of tips for avoiding a PR meltdown
Communication vs Constipation Pt1
No.12 in my series of leadership dilemmas - this one's a rant against clamming up
Hype vs Pragmatism
If you're courting investors, is it better to wow them with big promises, or be more conservative and reliable?
Deliberate vs Do
What's the right mix of thinking and action? Spoiler alert - it's all about 3 D's
Use AI for video scripts or write it yourself
No.8 in my leadership dilemmas series (and yes I wrote this summary myself)
Strategy vs Adaptability
What place does a 5-year plan have in this amazingly volatile time?
Support vs Challenge
When's the right time to push someone and when is it better to give them some support?
Data vs Instinct
Do it in-house vs Go outside
Equality vs Fairness
Charisma vs Constancy
Loyalty vs Talent
Walk the Talk vs Talk the Walk
Z for Zoom Fatigue
Rounding off the A to Z of business video, how you can use this medium to make video conferencing less boring
Y is for YEAR IN REVIEW
In the A to Z of business video, Y is for your Year in Review, a staple of your business staff internal comms programme
X is for eXplainers
From the A to Z of video for business, the power of video for making explainers of any kind
W is for WORKSHOPS
From the A to Z of video for business, find out how you can use video to supercharge the impact of our workshops
V is for VACANCIES
From the A to Z of video for business, find out how you can use video to showcase the open roles in your company
U is for UPSELLING
From the A to Z of video for business, how you can use video as a powerful upselling tool
T is for TOWN HALLS
From the A to Z of business video, how you can use video in your next Town Hall to keep your messaging consistent
S is for SCALING
From the A to Z of video for business, find out how video can help your business scale your messages
N is for NARRATIVES
From the A to Z of video for business, how video can give you, your clients & investors an impactful distillation of your business's story
Q is for Q&As
From the A to Z of video for business, in this one we explore how video can be useful tool for leaders in question and answer sessions
R is for REPORTS
Video can bring reports to life and amp up their impact - from the A to Z for business video
P is for PROTOTYPING
How video can help you prototype your next product, from the A to Z for business video
O is for ORIENTATION
From the business video A to Z, how video can be a useful tool for on-boarding new starters in your business
M is for MANAGING UP
How you can use video an effective tool to show your sponsors what you're up to
L is for LIVE
From the A to Z of video for business, here's a look at the power of LIVE!
K is for KNOWLEDGE BASE
Use video as a means of building your information repository for your people - from the A to Z of business video
J is for JOURNAL
How leaders can use video to create a journal for their people - part of the A to Z series on business video
I is for INFOGRAPHICS
Video can bring infographics to life better than a static pdf - from the A to Z of business video
H is for HYBRID
From the A to Z of business video, this episode explores how video can be the leader's friend in a hybrid workplace
G is for GOALS
From the A to Z on business video - how you can use video to outline and explain your company's goals and get everyone on the same page
F is for FUN
Don't forget to have some fun in your business, and video can help you do it - from the business video A to Z
E is for EMAIL
Video is the new email in this episode from the A to Z of business video
D is for DEMOS
From the A to Z of video for business, find out how you can use video for demos
C is for CASE STUDIES
C is for CASE STUDIES
B is for BROADCAST
From the A to Z on business video - a look at the one of video's greatest super-powers
A is for ANALYSIS
The first in the A to Z series on video for business is a look at how leaders can use video to communicate analysis in pithy form