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The couple

February 7th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

For SME’s including family businesses, the most powerful and groundbreaking work to generate business success often requires not just the MD, but his or her partner as well.
In one third generation business recently it was clear from the outset that the female MD was very wary of involving her husband. Yet it is at …

Of course I know who I am, don’t I?

January 30th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

Current business conditions are causing all sorts of leaders to fundamentally reassess where they stand and what they are doing with their lives.
I work with a couple in their early fifties who have been trading in the food industry for twenty years. When I asked whether they envisaged one or two of their children joining …

The learning and development myth

January 24th, 2010 by Tim Kidson

The mantra of ‘learning for life’ translates into lots of wasted time and energy for many busy executives.
At a three day convention recently I asked one CEO what sort of value she was expecting from the event. “No idea,â€� she smiled, “my HR director said that this would be good for me.â€� She followed the …

All hyped up

January 21st, 2010 by Tim Kidson

Well it is clear that if we are not all blogging, Twittering, spend the requisite number of hours per week on Linked In, scrabbling to enter every conceivable business card on Outlook, manicuring our entry on Facebook…..then we are very much second class citizens.
Do you not feel this pressure to conform? To be like …

2010? - bring it on!

December 13th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

There is so much excitement out there from so many of the businesses I have been fortunate enough to work with this past month or so. The common denominator is without doubt the attitude, demeanour and determination of the lady or the guy at the top. Without exception.
With one group we were looking at the …

Right up close

December 7th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

There is no doubt that we all have to get CLOSER to our customers or clients than ever before because that’s what differentiation boils down to.
Was a time when you could deliver the training or consultancy and just be satisfied to have done a solid days work. Not anymore. Trainers, consultants and speakers are ten …

Hidden Treasure

November 27th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

The amount of talent already on the payroll of organisations almost always exceeds the amount that is deployed.
Much of my work recently has been to do with drilling down to find how existing people in organisations can do things differently, think differently or behave differently. In other words how do we get more value from …

LOL

November 26th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

If our business message is all about content, the presentation experts recommend that we lighten it up with a bit of humour.
Part of my contemporary marketing effort is that I speak. It’s nearly all content but I don’t tell jokes. So I am out there, practising getting laughs. Seriously. It’s one of the development points …

Positive Politics

November 6th, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Many people including me have spent an entire lifetime fundamentally unable to understand how politics works. Yet nobody disputes the fact that we have to have politics like food, water and air.
There was a discussion on Radio Five Live this week about the extraordinary Formula One racing season that recently culminated with Jenson Button becoming …

Promises, promises

November 1st, 2009 by Tim Kidson

Trust is an absolutely crucial ingredient when a business wants to develop and sustain competitive advantage.
Talking and listening are the important skills here because the directors have to be able to talk about, and listen to, anything that could conceivably have an impact on the organisation.
There are things that individual and collective members of a …