Jan 26, 2023
I have often thought there are so many lessons from the martial arts for our businesses. Here are my musings after 51 years of training in traditional Karate.
Stepping on to the floor
The dojo is the ultimate equalizer. Whether you arrived by chauffeur driven Roller or took Shanks’s mare, once you step on to that...
Jan 12, 2023
We have many images of negotiation thanks to the media. Most of these representations however have very little relevance in the real world of business. A lot of the work done on negotiations focuses on “tactics”. This is completely understandable for any transactional based negotiations. Those one off deals...
Jan 5, 2023
Projects have been around for a long time of course and in the modern era we have accumulated a vast amount of best practice on how to manage them. It isn’t usually that we don’t know what to do, it is that we don’t actually do it. We get into trouble when we just leap in and dig straight into the logistical...