Copenhagen: Pay attention, communicate and change behaviour

EARL’S COURT — There’s a polar bear melting in Trafalgar Square. (There’s one in Copenhagen too.) Somehow, all of my family saw it this weekend. Except me.

One child reported back that the key thing is that people are encouraged to touch it. And that is making it melt faster.

“The head’s [...]

Leadership, language and communication

METIS-SUR-MER — I have started to get nervous. It’s not like me. But I am giving a speech in late September to the CRHA, Quebec’s largest Human Resources professional association. And I am doing it in French.

Normally I am quite comfortable with these kinds of things. After years of performing on stage as [...]

Don’t cancel your Q1 managers’ meeting! Make it work instead

HAMMERSMITH — I don’t know why we have been talking about this a lot in the last few weeks, maybe it’s the season. Maybe people aren’t sure what to do in 2009, so they’re focusing on annual events. But we have been talking a lot about big business strategy meetings.

Some companies have or will cancel them. The [...]

How to work with management consultants…

TCR — I’ve been at the Melcrum SCM Summit in London off and on this week. One table yesterday was lamenting the fact that presenters were showing very narrow case studies. “It’s just what worked in their circumstance. We should have consultants present on things that work in many businesses,” one said.

But then again, when you get consultants to present [...]