by Antony Tinker | Sep 30, 2022 | Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Performance
Back in August, the term ‘quiet quitting’ started to get a lot of attention, after a video went viral on TikTok. Defined by the poster as “not quitting your job, but quitting going above and beyond at work”, quiet quitting is a new term for an age-old problem. But...
by Antony Tinker | Apr 1, 2022 | Leadership, Organisational Learning, Performance, Personal growth
Life, especially in business, is very much like walking up a descending escalator: when we stand still, we fall backwards and slip behind (behind our competitors, our customers, the best version of ourselves). We need to continuously put one foot in front of the other...
by Antony Tinker | Jan 19, 2022 | Leadership, Performance
Have you ever thought about the difference between instruction and direction? These two words may be found alongside each other in the thesaurus but, when it comes to leadership skills, they mean very different things. In fact, recognising the difference and knowing...
by Antony Tinker | Dec 2, 2021 | Leadership, Performance, Personal growth
A recent episode of the Daily Calm podcast has inspired me to examine a commonly-held belief, that our state of mind is influenced – some would say determined – by the circumstances in which we find ourselves. But what if the opposite were true? What if – as quoted by...
by Antony Tinker | Oct 15, 2021 | Culture, Leadership, Performance, Personal growth
Just as the seasons have a predictable cycle, so there is a natural ebb and flow to business. The rhythm of your organisation may be linked to your sales or production cycle or other external factors, but there will also be unpredictable change which leaders need to...
by Antony Tinker | Sep 17, 2021 | Culture, Leadership, Performance, Personal growth
As we have observed before, success means different things to different people, but the concept of trying to ‘be a success’ seems inherently problematic. This was brought home to me by a quote I read this week: “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”...
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