Tim Kidson

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24dash.com columnist Tim Kidson is a business development specialist, facilitator and inspirational speaker. He works in both the public and private sectors with CEOs who want to be winners; senior people who wish to change their thinking, change their behaviour and change what they do in order to improve both themselves and their organisations.

In the moment

The vast majority of successful business executives I meet have not the faintest idea about the difference between explicit knowledge that is going down in value, and tacit knowledge that is going up.
I speak for a number of Executive groups both in the UK and overseas. They are all into the idea of developing knowledge […]

July 2nd, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Cringe

It can be useful to just take a moment. Think of just one word that describes most closely how you remember or feel about the formative first twenty-five years of your life.
We did this with an Executive Group recently. They discussed it in pairs for a few minutes and then fed back on each other’s […]

July 1st, 2009 by Tim Kidson

The Striker

If every Managing Director in the land knew how to add most value to their business, and then got on with it, this would be worth a full 1% to the GNP of the UK.
“Don’t you just hate ordinary days?” A business owner complained to me.
“Oh, I just don’t like the ‘grunt work’ part of […]

June 23rd, 2009 by Tim Kidson

No change given

Managing the business of change for business people is never going to go away. It is as if we all construct our own mental map of the world and then try to stick to it come what may.
There are some things we fight tooth and nail to keep the same even though we know that […]

June 15th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Happiness

The very happiest business people we meet are those that are clearest about what they want, in control of what they are doing and above all, they are really enjoying the journey. We see this same formula working time and time and time again.
Last week we needed a bolt hole somewhere in mid Wales to […]

June 9th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Dark chocolate, gin and cigarettes

Some top business people are so full of passion and energy and enthusiasm for the business that they carry on planning, plotting and persuading oblivious to health risks, and any advice from family and friends.
Business is just another drug at this stage and for addicts there is nothing quite like the thrill of opening a […]

June 7th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Newspapers, newsmakers?

There was a time when newspapers in particular and the media in general merely reported the news. Not anymore. The vast majority of business people I have researched believe that the news media want to make the news for us wherever and whenever possible.
And why are they doing this? Why are they behaving in […]

June 2nd, 2009 by Tim Kidson

The perch

Some Managing Directors try everything under the sun to get a break, even a short one, from the business but they never quite make it.
Somehow, what’s going on at work manages to infiltrate every waking, and much of their sleeping hours too. Alcohol sometimes helps but may not be a positive long term strategy; exercise […]

May 24th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Reel time

Many people in business are having to look at trying to sell new products and services to existing customers and markets, or existing products and services to new customers and markets. And sometimes I hear them asking wearily whether the end will justify the means.
The dawn had just broken on the lake. It was a […]

May 24th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

On the knives

Lots of today’s great family businesses started by making the product, selling it and distributing it. Just like that.
In the knowledge world it is an entirely different paradigm that will take these businesses to the next phase of growth. I was working with a third generation meat and butchery business last week where they have […]

May 21st, 2009 by Tim Kidson