by real_phil | May 28, 2018 | Points Of Focus
Watching the Snooker World Championships recently, I was struck by the precision with which the best players pot the ball and have the cue ball then travel perfectly into position for the next shot. And the next shot. And the next shot. And the next. And so on. They...
by real_phil | May 20, 2018 | Points Of Focus
Alice: Would you tell me, which way I ought to go from here? Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don’t much care where… Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go One of my new clients echoed the thoughts of so many...
by real_phil | May 17, 2018 | Points Of Focus
“Worse things happen at sea!” Another of my late mum’s favourite sayings in times of difficulty. Particularly disconcerting to me as a youngster as I had set the outrageously ambitious goal of joining the Royal Navy as an officer. To listen to the business world, one...
by real_phil | Jun 27, 2017 | Points Of Focus
I like simplicity. I like things to be straightforward. I like stuff that really works. And it amazes me (and frustrates me) when I see people in business forgetting the fundamentals that they did in year one (and which worked), getting more “sophisticated” and losing...
by real_phil | Jun 20, 2017 | Points Of Focus
Someone recently told me he had had a brilliant first 3 months of the year, but the second quarter had been “mixed”. Discussing it further, and looking for what changed three months ago, we discovered… …We discovered: Hotel Days! Those monthly / quarterly days...
by real_phil | Jun 13, 2017 | Points Of Focus
I’m declaring it official. It’s a pandemic. It cripples lives and businesses. We are all susceptible to it. So how do you recognise the signs of Procrastination, and what’s the antidote? Symptoms: > An increase in “wait”: Wait Watching > An increase in...
