Why Offices Will Still Matter
March 29th, 2021 // 1:23 pm @ Mark Hamilton
To many people working from home can seem like a utopian solution, no commuting, fewer interruptions, time flexibility and therefore greater productivity, and an improved quality of life. To companies it can seem a way to save cost on expensive offices and an aid to recruitment. Working from centrally based offices really started to become […]
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Leadership in a Time of a Pandemic
April 27th, 2020 // 3:13 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Leadership is critical to any business, but it becomes particularly critical in a time of rapid change. The present Pandemic has for almost every business created the greatest and fastest change they have ever experienced. During such times Leaders have to deal with staff and customers who are scared. Scared of the Pandemic, which as […]
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When leadership meets the Team
September 21st, 2018 // 12:18 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Team building is rightly a valued skill, and critical to aligning organizations and in getting the greatest possible input from every member of the team. Effective teams need leadership, and they work poorly if that leadership does not exist. Sometimes the lack of leadership is driven by a lack of managerial skill, but sometimes it […]
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Confused Leadership
July 2nd, 2018 // 4:19 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Leadership, it is difficult to define, but one knows when one see’s it, and all successful business’s have strong leadership. Leadership is best defined as the ability to influence others, but when executed properly it goes beyond that. True leaders sell a vision of the company and where it is going, and build a confidence […]
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Discrimination, Why?
January 12th, 2018 // 2:28 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Discrimination continues to blight our society and our business’s, whether it is sexual, racist, sexuality or any other difference; we continue to discriminate against each other. It is socially unacceptable to talk about this but it lies just below the surface as Donald Trump has so clearly demonstrated in recent days. The damage done by […]
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Nigel Farage “The come back kid”
November 20th, 2016 // 10:56 am @ Mark Hamilton
Nigel Farage has resigned and rejoined UKIP several times, and having completed his life’s work and got an exit vote from the EU, he talked of retiring to a quieter simpler life. Then suddenly he is standing by Donald Trump, advising Donald, and latter was the first foreign politician to meet the President Elect. Mr […]
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The Power of Business Structure
June 7th, 2016 // 6:39 pm @ Mark Hamilton
How a business is structured has critical impact on how it reacts, what it focuses’ on, and how much of your staffs potential you unleash. Business Structure is rarely used effectively as a business tool, and the structure of the business is often a historical inheritance or a chart produced by the Human Resources department. […]
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Businesses Don’t Fail Leaders Do
September 28th, 2015 // 6:53 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Failures in leadership are the primary cause of companies not delivering the returns shareholders expect, or even ceasing to trade completely. Research undertaken by Dr Robert Hogan estimates that somewhere in excess of half of people in Leadership roles actually do not have the skills required to lead effectively. So why do companies struggle to […]
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Ego – The Trump Effect
September 22nd, 2015 // 10:58 am @ Mark Hamilton
Donald Trump personifies the egotistical CEO, and is using this persona to some effect in his run for president; it is interesting to examine how egotistical CEO’s work, and their effect on the business’s they lead. Egotistical CEO’s are easy to identify, they are constantly telling the world how wonderful they are, and how the […]
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Constant Change is the only Certainty
July 29th, 2015 // 7:23 pm @ Mark Hamilton
Every business is constantly in a state of change. Those who embrace that reality, focus and drive it to where they want to go will succeed. Those who believe the business is fine as it is, are likely to be overwhelmed by the inevitable change as it happens. It is fashionable to believe that in […]
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