Business Articles:

Here is a mindmap of all the Articles, just click on the one you wish to read to navigate there. Richard writes regular articles. These are now appearing on a regular basis in the business press.

Change Articles:

• Banking - Has anything Changed? This examines the recent banking crisis and what it teaches us about Change
• Change Lessons from Obama's Mistakes in Health Care Reform: This Looks at the difficulties President Obama is encountering in changing the US healthcare system and trying to learn where he is failing and looks at a simple 5 step model for successful change
• The Inevitability of Change: an exploration of how we think about Change and how this causes resistance, and how to defuse it
• Deflating Resistance to Change: Examines a key challenge for today’s economic situation, how to successfully address resistance to Change and successfully implement those changes that are required
• Sales, Change & Strategy: A simple tool to help you review your current business and personal sales strategy to help you focus on the real opportunities
• Who Sets the Rules: A look at who should lead and the questions you need to ask to win in tomorrows market place
• The Change Challenge for Professional Firms: An analysis of the challenges in professional firms such as lawyers and accountants to master change. This draws heavily on David Maister’s work "True Professionalism"
• What HR Can Do To Give Change a Chance: A practical guide to help HR professionals give Change a real chance of success
• 5 Steps to Successful Change: A simple 5 step plan how to manage strategic Change, of especial interest to HR professionals
• Why Change Fails: a provocative exploration into the reasons why Change fails and HR’s role in that failure
• Mutation & Evolution looks at the importance of Evolution in a changing world and examines the art of learning from mistakes
• You Get the Results you Reward: An exploration of the relationship between Rewards & Results, which examines the art of picking the right ‘stroke’ for the right ‘folk’.
• The Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men, or how not to plan your changes: a light hearted examination of the lessons to be learnt from some poor schmuck’s suffering!
• Present Tense Future Perfect: explores how we think about and use our time, and issues you a challenge to help you make Change begin to happen
• Change is the only constant: looks at why Change is on everyone's agenda whether they are aware of it or not
• Adapt or Die: looks at some drivers of Change
• Time for a change: examines personal Change and helps you improve your life balance
• Wine not what happens when you stop changing: looks at what happens when Change leaves you behind, as it did with the French wine growers
• Congruence: explores the secret of powerful communication and examines the myth that words only account for 7% of communication
• Thoughts on the Nature of Change: or why DIY efforts aren't enough: reviews the value of an external perspective in Change
• Blockers, & how to handle them: gives some tips on how to handle people who block Change
• The Physics of Change: a fascinating look at how physics can inform our understanding of the Change process
• BPR2 .. Breakthrough Personal Refocus: looks at people centred Change

Leadership Articles:

• Gandhi Leadership Lessons:Some key questions for leaders in the midst of the Credit Crunch, and examines what Gandhi might have to teach us about a different way to lead.
• Sustainable Leadership: An examination of what it takes to lead a truly sustainable business in the 21st century, including some test questions
• The Other Credit Crunch: An exploration of the power and importance in giving credit where it is due and feedback where it is required and its power to change behaviour
• Managing a Smaller Business: Gives some valuable clues and tips on how to run and smaller business or team
• Sounding Board: The Value of a Sounding Board: or who should a leader listen to? This explores the value an outsider can bring to a leader and how this can impact on the quality of their leadership
• Leadership: Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Key lessons in business and personal strategy from squash world champion Hashim Khan
• Leadership: What It takes?: Explores what it takes to be a leader and the nature of leadership
• Leadership - The missing ingredient: Looks at what is sometimes missing in our leaders
• Motivational Leadership: explores what it takes to get people to follow your leadership
• Leadership, Change & Communication: examines what England's rugby failures can teach us about the importance of communication in leadership
• Leadership: Succession challenges: reviews the lessons the Labour Party can teach us about grooming tomorrow's leaders
• No Pain, No Gain: examines whether leaders are supposed to help people deal with the pain of Change

Culture Articles:

• Out of the Box: looks at a well known scientific experiment and what it teaches us about creating a Change adverse environment
• 100th Monkey Syndrome - or what it takes to make change happen: examines another famous experiment and it's lessons for Change
• It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it!: explores the importance of HOW things are done. And the crucial component of doing not only the right things, but doing them the right way
• Business Ethics: looks at the role business ethics plays in creating the right culture for success, and gives some guidance on getting them right

Communication Articles:

• 10 Reasons Why Communications Fail: This examines the reasons why communications fails so often and gives some useful tips how to avoid these costl mitakes
• Strategic Communication: A simple guide to leaders to help them communicate clearly and powerfully in times of crisis
• Miscommunication - an object lesson in how not to get your message over effectively. You are invited to learn from this true life story and improve your own communications strategy
• Vital Communication: explains why communication is so crucial in not just business but the business of Change. It also uses some NLP precepts to help examine this

Other Articles:

• Experts and Questions: This one looks at both how we respond to receiving expert advice and the best way to use it. It also includes some good questions to be asking yourself now
• The Power of the Dark Side - examines the impact of the flipside of our strengths and how this can lead to ruin, plus some handy pointers at avoiding this trap
• Coaching - what has it done for us?: A review of the benefits and reason for investing in executive coaching.
• Design to Innovate: An exploration of the impact Design can have on your business, even if you are a service company! Design is as much about how you see and value things as how they look.
• Gold Medal Performance: Sir Steve Redgrave, shares his recipe for success and goal setting
• Are you a 'Secret Survivor'?: are you thriving or just surviving? This looks at the role of the flight/fight mechanism has in our lives
• Why are you working so hard? Helps look at the real motivation behind your hard work and checks if you are on purpose
• Risky Business: an article on risk management, and some strategies to deal with this
• A Question of Questions: explores the importance of good questions and what they can teach us
• Are you dot competent? Looks at some of the lessons of the dot com boom

Mini Articles:

• There are a series of mini articles on the blog that may also be of interest

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