by Trish Springsteen | Jun 28, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Training
At a recent meeting of an engineering consultancy it was passionately said “We do not own oil fields, we do not manufacture, we derive our income from our people. Without Good people we cannot succeed”I am not sure who said that, but whoever it was has a real...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 18, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Women in Business
“Ah! Freedom” I said to myself when I finally left my institute of learning “No more being told what to do … no more rules and regulations … Life! The way I want it to be!”Ah! The innocence of youth!Because the first thing I had to do was get a job. Funny thing about...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 7, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership
As an English expat, I am watching with amazement the unfolding drama that surrounds the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.Appointed by his party to replace Tony Blair in 2007, he had already spent ten years as the Chancellor of the Exchequer (the ancient name for the...
by Trish Springsteen | Jun 2, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership, Women in Business
There is an old Irish blessing, which goes “May you live in interesting times” – and these days most of us can say we have been blessed!These are indeed interesting times for many organisations: some are re-defining their operations, some are struggling to recast...
by Trish Springsteen | May 4, 2009 | Communication, Leadership, Personal Development
Sometimes all it takes to stop us in our tracks is one failure. Sometimes the humiliation of defeat can be such that we are determined never to put ourselves out there again.We of course have been chanting the mantra “If at first you don’t succeed try, try again” for...
by Trish Springsteen | Mar 9, 2009 | Business, Communication, Leadership
I may have mentioned that I am moving house at the moment, in between working and writing. Yesterday we had a blitz and moved all the three thousand books which litter my household. Previously the pest control people had been in and did a mighty job; corpses littered...
