“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi Today is the last day you can register for the Alt-MBA, an initiative inspired by this. It’s open to anyone with a desire to learn and connect with some very gifted individuals, but the deadline to […]
Serious skills part 2
Ann E W Stone says that she once read a book that changed the course of her career, and her life. She learnt that people make snap decisions on others based on ‘signals; and that it was within one’s power to manage those signals. The first part of her transformation was to understand the operating […]
The Stelios Soundbites
London in the sunshine, 230 exhibitors, 160 seminars and 20,000 people with some aspiration to starting up a business. I dropped into Business Startup 2007 at ExCel with no particular agenda other than to listen into conversations. Real ones, as opposed to the online ones we all tune into. In the brash, cattle market atmosphere […]
Letting go
Every external change agent knows the time has to come when you have to let go. Over the past weeks, it became clear that I was reaching the end of the road with a project I have been running for a client company for the best part of 17 months. Several things have been unusual […]
Outside In
There’s something mildly dysfunctional about being a consultant engaged to work as part of a team on the inside. In most cases, as a change agent, your role within the client’s corporate environment is fairly clear. You’ve been called in to devise solutions to long-standing problems – normally within a short period of time. You’re a catalyst […]