Full disclosure: I founded a business in 2003 that has never had an office, even though we were founded 17 years before remote working became fashionable. It wasn’t farsighted and it wasn’t for any...

There's a lot of talk right now about moving to a Meritocracy and I have to confess that I'm all in favour. Here's a little article about what that might actually mean when it comes to high perform...

Why us baby boomer leaders risk looking like lone nuts. There's a well watched video on You Tube showing a guy dancing in a park. After a while he's joined by lots of others, though the "moral" of...

Having a driving licence is no assurance of competence and definitely no indication of greatness. It’s also true of your coaching qualification when it comes to high performance.

There are some powerful concepts that get talked about a lot in the work I do as part of the team PlanetK2. They are often spoken of with passion and intensity.

People are not your most valuable resource. Firstly, because us humans are not carbon based units of production. I am not a resource and I don't think anyone else is either. Secondly, because in so...

There’s been a lot written on here and elsewhere about the challenges, opportunities and different approaches to hybrid working (HW), a term I’ve come to increasingly irritated by because I think...

This article might not be for you I’m going to start with some assertions that I think are uncontroversial. If you disagree, then the rest of this article isn't for you.

Nearly 2 years ago the team at PlanetK2 made a commitment to be an anti-racist business and we set out what that means for us. You can see our statement here: https://www.

With all the current debate about “banter”, here are some thoughts I recently shared: The point that often gets missed is that for banter to be, well, banter, then it needs to pass all 3 of the...

Awkward…. Well this is a little embarrassing. 10 days ago EY rescued Lane4, a competitor of ours. Today one of our directors and shareholders received this email from an Associate Partner in the very...

Racism is a leadership issue. In the UK, last year black people were 9 times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people. No doubt many of those people work in organisations represented...