Browsing posts in the ‘Business’ category
Why ‘Kingfisher’ Coaching?
I found it quite a challenge to name my business. For some time, I'd had a working title in my mind of 'Eudaimonia Coaching', after an excellent lecture on the concept of Eudaimonia by Professor Charles Handy a few years ago. As a business name, it had lots of appeal to me as it is all about...
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The Lean Startup
I've been watching some of the talks from the excellent Authors@Google series (where Google employees hear from authors on a wide variety of topics) and one that has really made me think is a talk by Eric Ries (@ericries) who is the author of...
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Are you following the unclear path?
I've been very inspired by the TEDxConcordia talk by Tara Hunt (@missrogue on Twitter) who is a startup entrepreneur and CEO of Buyosphere. If you can't see the embedded video above, please click here to see it....
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The hunt for ROI
ROI seems to be a constant debate which never gets resolved! This last week, I've seen lots of things on the ROI of Coaching, read about Impact Reporting for charities, and attended a great discussion on Social Media ROI,organised by The Feed, and all are wrestling with...
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Leading Change (Kotter) – Part 2
In the previous post, I reflected on how change is important yet often poorly executed (with a reported 70% of change initiatives failing) and introduced John Kotter's eight-stage process of creating major change by looking at the reasons why change initiatives fail. Kotter points...
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Leading Change (Kotter) – Part 1
Having recently reviewed Seth Godin's 'Poke the Box', I've been reflecting on the paradox that change is crucially important and yet we are not very good at it; According to Harvard Business Review, 70% of all change initiatives fail. So, in general, we're really bad at doing...
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A Portfolio of ideas?
After reviewing Seth Godin's Poke The Box, I started thinking about how we can handle the multitude of ideas we have each day; Which ones should we act on? When should we drop an idea and move on? How many ideas should we have on the go at once? I know that investment banking isn't...
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