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Watch your thoughts, because they become your words   Choose you words, because they become your actions   Understand your actions, because they become your habits   Study your habits, for they become your character   Develop your character, because it becomes your destiny.

San Antonio, Texas, 13th – 18th April, 2015   Over 300 LMI delegates attended the World Convention “Whatever You Ardently Desire” “Desire is the quality that transforms individuals from average achievers to true champions”   One of LMI’S key beliefs throughout its 50 years of influence in developing the true potential of people and organisations…

Defining productivity For as long as most of us can remember, there’s been a concerted push to improve the productivity of our organisations and the people within them. Governments of all persuasions have set in motion initiatives designed to stimulate economy activity, drive productivity and enhance national and organisational balance sheets. Private enterprise has up-sized,…

PASSION I’m driven by my passion. I would pay someone to do what I do. If you do it for love the money comes along anyway   WORK Have fun working. Nothing comes easily.   GOOD Practice, practice, practice. The successful person is the average person focused. Get really good at something   PUSH Push,…

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We all use it (although we probably deny it); when it’s used on us, we enjoy it (although we probably deny it); it fills the atmosphere and ethos in organisations with dangerous complacency and not a few injuries, as the back-slapping becomes unbearable.  Yes – flattery is part of everyday life in most organisations and…

I enjoy looking beyond the immediately obvious sources of business and management texts for lessons worth learning, and military history is possibly the best teacher of all. Last Friday was 25th October – St. Crispin’s day – and the anniversary of the famous battle of 1415, where English longbowmen punished the mistakes of the numerically…

Armies, governments, rock bands, sports teams – even knitting groups – all need leaders. So there should be no surprise that businesses that have no clear leader, or no effective leadership, suffer from more than simply poor performance. This would be the perfect spot for a dictionary definition of ‘leader’ or ‘leadership’. But instead, the…

‘Write a goal down?! Pah – It’s all up here in my head…!’ Goal setting is a key component of any successful person or business. When this subject comes up there is usually a look of dismay on my clients’ face when I explain how important writing them down is, and I hear sentences such…

September update from Mark Tonks & LMI Welcome to latest edition of Shed Loads of Leadership. In this edition a little food for thought, a couple of upcoming events ideal for business networking alongside personal development, an interesting article on the impact of coffee on productivity, a couple of recommendations and of course something just…