I was on the train the other day, travelling as I often do between delivery venues and meetings. I was reading a novel on my Kindle and looked up in time to see a colleague who I hadn't had contact with for 2 or 3 years passing by. He's in a similar line of business – Training & Development. We got …

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I've been tackling some difficult issues lately. I'll own up though, they are mostly intellectual ones. Stuff to do with conceptualizing, coming up with new models to explain behaviour, that sort of thing. Sometimes the ideas flow and sometimes they are dammed up and inaccessible at the back of my mind. And yet, as I'm writing this blog entry, I'm back …

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I've been contemplating the nature of trust and its role in the workplace. I'll start by paraphrasing the late Peter Drucker, who said essentially that trust has replaced force as the means through which we do business in our modern organisations. His proposition, as with most things Drucker, concerns the rise of the knowledge worker and how we do business in the knowledge-based …

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I am writing this blog entry on the terrace of the Hotel Parsifal, high above the Amalfi Coast. It's a place that has long been an important part of my personal jigsaw; a place that encourages renewal and reconnection with some of the bits and pieces that sit around in disparate parts of my brain. An important, indeed essential, part of …

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