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Announcing the launch of an exciting new programme, Women as Leaders, with the inspirational Jane Weaver. If you don’t know her amazing story Jane started her career in administration with Birmingham City Council, before moving into PA work in retail and finally as a PA to a Board of Directors in the Utility Industry. She…

  Finding your purpose is an essential factor in personal leadership. 19th century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle wrote “a man without purpose is like as ship without a rudder” Many years ago my coach said of me “You’re a bit like a ship without a rudder, bobbing along on a sea of vagueness” I never…

  As part of my own personal leadership journey and self development I aim to read at least one relevant book every month. I am a great fan of John C. Maxwell, internationally recognised leadership expert and author of books selling in excess of 13 million copies. I have read 3 of those books to…

Once we know what each hour we spend doing things is worth, we can then understand the true cost of not getting the right stuff done.

When you consider that every hour spent on a task is a direct investment of that amount of money, how many tasks you undertake are actually worth that investment?

Whenever I raise the issue of what it means to be an effective leader of a business, the conversation always turns to how to get more stuff done in the working day.