This is one of a series of blogs on problem solving, creative thinking and creativity to support a number of my public and in-house training courses on the subject with regards to strategy, marketing campaigns and business development. Please let me know (kim@kimtasso.com) if you would like further details of half Read More
Working in the professions requires resilience. Marketing and sales roles require resilience. So those who have a business development role in the professions must need a double dose! But what is resilience and how can you be more resilient? Definition A Harvard Business School report found that there are three Read More
Two recent but very different articles on leadership attracted my attention. Star Trek Forbes published “Five leadership lessons from James T Kirk” in May http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/. It’s a neat way to get across some key messages – with evidence from the Enterprise’s caption: Never stop learning Be a “walking stack of Read More
Long ago a senior management consultant for whom I had great respect admonished me for working long hours and stressed the importance of focusing on the outputs rather than the inputs. At the time I was rather indignant – he was advocating that we should not be hung up about Read More
Dealing with stress? I first read this excellent book offering strategies for handling a fast paced life and dealing with stress by Dr Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist, in December 2007. But many of the ideas (e.g. screen sucking, gigaguilt) have remained so vibrant to me as I have witnessed, amongst Read More
