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:

• What’s the Difference between Management and Change Management?: This considers the difference between a manager and a change manger.
• 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:

• Fishing for Business: This examines the reasons why communications fails so often and gives some useful tips how to avoid these costly mistakes.
• 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:

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You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river. - Steven Foster, [The Book of the Vision Quest]