In the 1940s Abraham Maslow defined a principle that identified our needs that enabled us to live a successful life. Maslow described these needs as a physiological or psychological deficiency that a person feels the compulsion to satisfy. This need will create tensions that will influence a person’s attitudes and Read more
Pay attention to Maslow’s “lower level needs” for good performance. How much attention should we pay to our ‘lower level needs” as outlined in Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? These can be described as: Physiological needs meaning food, water & homeostasis. Safety needs meaning order stability, Read more
Do you work in an open plan office? How do you find this? Are you productive and happy or does this make you stressed and unable to work productively? Personally, I find open plan offices badly designed and not conducive to good work. When in this type of office environment Read more
2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. In 1819 there was a peaceful gathering of between 60,000 and 80,00 people on what was then St Peter’s Field in Manchester. These people were demonstrating about the lack of suffrage and the poor economic conditions being experienced in northern England, Read more
When I started advising companies in the late 1990s I quickly came to realise that one of the biggest obstacles to a company’s success lay in the poor health of its workforce (by workforce I mean everybody working in the company) the problems were rarely down to economic conditions. Basically, Read more
It’s taken me a while to get round to writing this but……. A couple of months ago I wrote about how we constantly accept self inflicted poor health in the work place but I actually meant: “Why do we accept self inflicted poor health wherever we are – at home Read more
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. This saying first appeared in James Howell’s Proverbs in 1659. Dull means bored or boring – neither are traits that we would wish to have attributed to us, but if we spend ever longer hours at work, this proverb probably Read more
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results “ Albert Einstein Wellbeing at work continues to rise up the agenda but in reality many businesses are just carrying on as before, it is almost as if the slogan “we can now talk about it” Read more
Would it be better if we just slowed down a bit? Memory & performance are improved when we travel through life at a slower pace. I use a narrow country lane that is near to my home on a daily basis. I use this lane in my car and my Read more
A few years ago I was asked by a marketing person what I did for a living, I replied that I was a strategy consultant. “That’s a big word.” they replied. What, Consultant?” I said. “No, strategy. No one understands what it is.” I think that what he meant was Read more