If you’ve got this far, my job now is to push you on to the next step because most people end up continuing to ruminate over all their ideas without landing a concrete decision about what they are going to shoot for. True, you may not yet be at the stage that you can...

At one point or another, if you have built your career on opportunities that just happened along – handy coincidences, good fortune – at some point they'll stop. They won't come along any more. You'll be regarded as being over the hill, out of touch, but you will not...

Now we get to the part where you can start to play. Let your imagination run riot. Remind yourself of the things that give you the most stimulation, excitement and enjoyment (at work). It is also the time when you will begin to realise where you...   Now this...

No opponents. Go find them. Seriously! When I am showing people how to use my stakeholder mapping tool, one of the things I alert them to is the problem of having no critics or opponents. If you look at the four boxes, we're talking about the dimensions of agreement...

Without doubt, the most important stakeholder that you have whenever it comes to influence – is you. Think about it. When you're completing your stakeholder map you map out all of the powerful people, all of the people that can have an impact. But, how often you put...

As you will see in a moment, this part of the Blueprint for an Exciting Adventure at Work is core. Changes you make here will, in time, be seen as the turning point for you – because it concerns the way you are relating to your work, responding to it, and starting to...