Research studies consistently show that having goals makes a significant difference in creating success. The biographies of high achievers throughout history bear out this research. So if you want to achieve anything worthwhile you absolutely have...
The Victorian principles of a rounded education remain highly effective, but 19th-century school timetabling is no longer fit for purpose. Its roots lie in our agriculture heritage, when families needed their children in the summer to help farm and after...
Time to think is being squeezed out of the packed schedules of workers, who regard a full diary as the mark of success. Inevitably, it is being called ‘busy syndrome’.
This may sound familiar: people have been bleating for years about...
Recent research carried out by askten.co.uk on the views of leaders of middle-market companies found that strategy and growth were thought to be the most important factors in creating a successful business. More than a third of the respondents...
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. What...
So much for the season of goodwill, January tends to be the busiest time of the year for divorce lawyers as couples crack under the strain of Christmas and increased debt burdens. Though divorce rates have fallen slightly over the past few years, Norwich...
Inspired by the 2007 Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman film The Bucket List, telling of two pals who flee a cancer ward to make their wishes a reality, I have come up with 50 things to do before I am 50 on 17 February 2012. Starting today, I have just...
As a nation, we are more affluent than ever. Yet, strangely, we only seem to be getting gloomier and more pessimistic.
It was the week before Christmas. I should have been happy. The people around me should have been happy. We were safe, we had enough to...
During a recent national awards dinner, I asked Richard Branson if he had found a secret – or at least a consistent answer – to successfully building businesses over his career. After thinking about what characterises so many of Virgin’...
In their early days, the Beatles used to psyche themselves up with the chant, Where do we want to go? To the toppermost of the poppermost!” But what if total ambition’s not your gig? What if you’ve got far enough up the company tree and...
