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Taking inspiration from the planet’s tiniest experts on collaboration

Taking inspiration from the planet’s tiniest experts on collaboration

With the BBC One’s Blue Planet II now in full swing, the world is once again marvelling at the extraordinary creatures with which we share our corner of the universe. The blockbuster nature documentary has attracted 80 million viewers in China alone, causing a temporary…

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Relationship behaviour – for agencies, one of the two pillars of trusted advisor status

Relationship behaviour – for agencies, one of the two pillars of trusted advisor status

In last month’s blog I wrote about the importance of understanding client needs in determining the success of a service business. The essential companion to spending quality time in your clients’ shoes is relationship behaviour, the ability to establish rapport, maintain trust and credibly behave…

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10 business relationship trends for 2017

10 business relationship trends for 2017

It’s that time again. The futurologists, both permanent and those drafted in to handle the seasonal spike, are in full flow.  What’s going to happen in the year ahead? What will be the defining trends? Having just emerged, blinking, from the extraordinary year that was…

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Organisations seem permanently to be reorganising. It’s important to get this right

Organisations seem permanently to be reorganising. It’s important to get this right

In business if change is the new normal and the pace of change continues to increase, then the challenge to keep up, let alone flourish, places a heavy burden on leadership teams. A typical response to these difficulties appears to be a reorg (it even…

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Think strategy, think relationships

Think strategy, think relationships

Now is the time to activate that plan to be better in 2015. Driving the plan, no doubt, is a piercing analysis of the opportunities provided by the coming months, aided possibly by the seasonal supply of crystal ball gazing, from a wide variety of…

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