As you strive to develop your executive mindset, keep aware of the obstacles. Then you will have more opportunity to mitigate them, and critically, you will be able to take action now to avoid them troubling you. This will prime you for success, reduce your risks and...
How to Maximise Your Promotion Prospects
If you’re interested in being promoted, especially to the most senior levels, there are a great many things you need to do. Since I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I cannot predict exactly what you need to do. What I can tell you though, is you probably...
Developing Your Executive Career
As an executive, or a talented individual heading for the executive level, your first priority is always to deliver results and meet expectations, in your current role. I’m sure you’ll agree that this is no easy task in today’s climate. Yet you’ll also agree that...
The Executive Mindset
If you aspire to become an executive, want to be selected as one, and want to succeed at the highest levels, you need to develop and cultivate the right mindset and begin to think like an executive. Exactly what this means depends on the environment, your personality...
Fire! Fire! Controlling the Unseen Threat to Organisational Survival
Within many organisations, there is a fire burning, out of control, and out of sight. Those who can see it are impotent to do anything. They watch with growing despair, or simply jump ship. The threats to organisational success today are big, very big. Technology, AI,...
The Influential Executive: Nine Critical Capabilities
To get to the top you have to be good at your job. You also have to be extremely good at influence, especially if you work in a competitive environment where egos, personal agendas and politics are rife. Over the last 15 years I have helped hundreds of senior people...
